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Donna Strickland thinks lasers are cool. With enthusiasm for the field and “very, very hard” work, she found a way to create high-intensity laser pulses. This technique, chirped pulse amplification or CPA, was described in Strickland’s very first scientific paper, and it led to her 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. More important, it began a long career in which, as she has put it, “I get to play with high-intensity lasers.”

Marie Curie is still the only individual to receive the prize in two different science categories. Her relentless resolve and insatiable curiosity made her an icon in the world of modern science. Indefatigable despite a career of physically demanding and ultimately fatal work, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity.

For most of her career, Maria Goeppert Mayer worked “just for the fun of doing physics,” without pay or status or a tenured position. She was 58 before she became a full professor. And yet she made major contributions to the growing understanding of nuclear physics, including the revelatory nuclear shell model.

“As a scientist, make sure students become critical thinkers” , Nobel Prize laureate in physics 2020, was joined by nine students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Ghez gave her best advice for maintaining a good work-life balance, spoke about…

Interview with the 2007 Nobel Prize laureates in physics Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, 6 December 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg, welcome to this interview for Nobelprize.org. You are the co-recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics and often the work for which the Nobel Prize…

Anton Zeilinger did not submit a biography.

John Clauser did not submit a biography.

Alain Aspect did not submit a biography.