I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen. Donna Strickland Read Quote
When I was a first-year in grad school, there were 18 of us in the Ph.D. program, and four of us were women. Donna Strickland Read Quote
In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn’t good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don’t know how they choose what to do. Donna Strickland Read Quote
I hadn’t looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there’s no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me. Donna Strickland Read Quote
I feel unbelievably honored to be, you know, with Marie Curie and Goeppert Mayer. It’s like, how can I be in the same breath as those three? Donna Strickland Read Quote
For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or more photons simultaneously. Donna Strickland Read Quote
As for me, I want to have fun while I’m working. Now not everyone thinks physics is fun, but I do. I think experimental physics is especially fun, because not only do you get to solve puzzles about the universe or on Earth, there are really cool toys in the lab. Donna Strickland Read Quote
