Five women who missed out on the Nobel prize

Donna Strickland's Nobel prize ends half a century in which the committee ignored big breakthroughs by female physicists

Last week, Donna Strickland (above) was awarded the 2018 Nobel prize for physics jointly with Arthur Ashkin and Gi(C)rard Mourou for their work on high-intensity lasers. It's the first time in 55 years that a woman has won this prestigious prize, but why has it taken so long? We look at five other pioneering female physicists - past and present - who had a genuine claim to the prize.

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