Metropolitan Digital

Google


.

You can count female physics Nobel laureates on one hand – recent winners have wisdom for young women in the field

  • Written by Filomena Nunes, Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
You can count female physics Nobel laureates on one hand – recent winners have wisdom for young women in the fieldThe Nobel Prize is regarded as one of the most prestigious medals in science.Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File

Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This is a very small number, and certainly smaller than 50% – the percent of women in the human population.

Despite several studiesexposing the...

Read more: You can count female physics Nobel laureates on one hand – recent winners have wisdom for young...

More Articles ...

  1. Being bullied in high school can make teens less optimistic about the future
  2. Congress is trying to force carmakers to keep AM radio − it should also use this opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past
  3. Toxic chemicals from Ohio train derailment lingered in buildings for months – here’s what our investigation found in East Palestine
  4. NYC’s ‘Eric Adams Show’ heads for a final curtain, with echoes of another New Yorker more focused on style than policy
  5. Voters without kids are in the political spotlight – but they’re not all the same
  6. Trump and Harris have clashing records on clean energy, but the clean power shift is too broad for any president to control
  7. Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end
  8. In storms like Hurricane Helene, flooded industrial sites and toxic chemical releases are a silent and growing threat
  9. How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them
  10. Is it bad to listen to music all the time? Here’s how tunes can help or harm