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It was about five in the morning in Ontario.Canada.when Donna Strickland's phone rang.The
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Nobet Prize commimee was on the line in Sockholm.calling to tell her she had won the prize in
physics.
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"I wondered if it was a joke."Strickland said in an intervicwwith a Nobel official after the call.
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She had been asleep when the call arived,"Something was wrong hecause it came so carly in the
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moming.Hut then I knew it was the right day.and it would huave been a cruel joke.
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Strickland.an associate professor a the University of Waterloo.shares the hoo with two other
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Inventors are always at work.drcaming up new techeologies.Somne inveetions help us solve
counless applicationsThe prize money $1.4 million will be shared among the three.Half the prire
problems.Others make life easier.or more fun.Here.TFK Time for Kids)peesents 3 of our favorite
weet to Sericklaed and her cooperator Gerard Mourou,a professor at the Ecole Poly technique in
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France.The other half was awarded to Arthur Ashkin.a rctirod plrysicist who worked at the famo
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Christine Schindler is an engineer.She wanted to help sop the spread of foodbome illnesses.So
Strickland's win is historic in more than one way.It's been over 55 years since a woman was
she created PATHSPOT.It uses light to scan a percon's hands for harmful gemms.Restaurant
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.In 1903.Marie Curie bocame the first-ever woman to win a Nobcl
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employees hold their hands beneath the scanner.Then the scaneer judges whether they must be
Prize in Physies.For the next 60 years.no women physicists were awarded.Maria Goeppert Mayer
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