Three women were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2018:
Prof. Strickland of U. of Waterloo, Canada won for the work in her first paper.
Frances Arnold of Caltech is the first Nobel prize winner that I can claim to know personally ;)
More:
The Physics Prize
The Chemistry Prize
A third woman won a Nobel Prize this year, human rights activist Nadia Murad, for efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
The Literature prize for 2018 has been postponed.
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