November ENewsletter
Nobel Laureates
Very exciting news came in October 2018 – women were going to share the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics! Donna Strickland, one of the trio to be awarded the
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics works at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her prize is being
awarded for discovering how to amplify the intensity of laser light in ever-briefer pulses. This work
paved the way for precision eye surgery and cancer therapy, among other advances. Dr.
Strickland becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics since American Maria
Goeppert-Mayer in 1963. Fran Arnold will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on
the directed evolution of enzymes.