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This discusses women who have made an important contribution to the field of biology.

Nobel Laureates

 * 1903 Marie Curie: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
 * 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer: "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
 * 2018 Donna Strickland: "for their method high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"

Three women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the prize in 1903, along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel - making her the only woman to be award two Nobel prizes (her second Nobel prize was in Chemistry in 1911). Maria Goeppert Mayer became the second woman to win the prize in 1963, for her contributions to understanding the nuclear shell structure. Donna Strickland is the winner of the Noble prize in 2018, for her work in high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses beginning in the 1980's with Gérard Mourou.

Timeline of women in physics
1740: Émilie du Châtelet published Institutions de Physique, or Foundations of Physics.

1903: Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and became the first woman professor at the University of Paris.

1911: Marie Curie became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and the only person two win in two different sciences.

1918: Emmy Noether created Noether's theorem explaining the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

1926: Katharine Burr Blodgett was the first women to earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge.

1929: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

1939: Lise Meitner helped lead a small group of scientists who first discovered the nuclear fission of uranium when it absorbed an extra neutron.

1941: Ruby Payne-Scott joined the Radio physics Laboratory of the Australia Government's CSIRO, she was the first woman radio astronomer.

1963: Maria Goeppert Mayer became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells.

1964: Chien-Shiung Wu spoke at MIT about gender discrimination

1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell co-discovered the first radio pulsars

1972: Willie Hobbs Moore became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics.

1972: Sandra Faber became the first woman to join the Lick Observatory staff at the University of California, Santa Cruz

1978: Chien-Shiung Wu was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics for her help with the development of the Standard Model

1978: Sally Ride joined NASA and became first the American women astronaut in 1983

1985: Mildred Dresselhaus was appointed the first women Institute Professor at MIT

1986: Maria Goeppert Mayer Award was awarded for the first time to honor young female physicists at the beginning of their careers

1992: Mae Jemison became the first African American Women in space

2000: Mildred Dresselhaus became the director of the Office of Science at the United States Department of Energy

2001: Lene Hau stopped a beam of light completely

2002-2004: Jocelyn Bell Burnell served as the president of the Royal Astronomical Society

2003: Deborah S. Jin and her team were the first to condense pairs of fermionic atoms

2013: Nashwa Eassa founded the NGO Sudanese Women in Sciences

2015: Rabia Salihu Sa'id received the Elsevier Foundation Award for Women Scientist in the Developing World.

2016: Fabiola Gianotti became the first woman Director-General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Other notable women physicists

 * Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) French physicist, mathematician, author, and philosopher
 * Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist
 * Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Austrian-Swedish physicist
 * Emmy Noether (1882-1935) German mathematician
 * Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) American physicist and chemist
 * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) British-born American astrophysicist and astronomer
 * Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) German-born American theoretical physicist
 * Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) Chinese-American experimental physicist
 * Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981) Australian radio astronomer
 * Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017) American physicist
 * Evelyn Fox Keller (1936- ) American physicist, author, and feminist
 * Sandra Faber (1944- ) Astrophysicist from the United States
 * Sally Ride (1951-2012) American physicist, astronaut, and engineer
 * Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1953- ) Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland
 * Mae Jemison (1956- ) American engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut
 * Lene Hau (1959- ) Danish physicist
 * Fabiola Gianotti (1960- ) Italian particle physicist
 * Rabia Salihu Sa'id (1963- ) Nigerian atmospheric and space weather physicist
 * Deborah S. Jin (1968-2016) American physicist