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Next week, the new Nobel science laureates will be announced. At last year’s awards, Caltech’s Frances Arnold became only the fifth female Nobel chemistry laureate since the prize was first given in 1901, while Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo in Canada became only the third female recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in its 118-year history.
Two years earlier, Arnold became the first woman to be awarded the €1 million Millennium Technology Prize, one of the world’s largest innovation prizes put out by my organization, Technology Academy Finland, while Tu Youyou of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences won a 2015 Nobel Prize and a 2011 Lasker Award for her discoveries that led to a treatment for malaria.
So are times changing for women in science? For too long, women have been marginalized by the profession, and misogynistic attitudes still hamper their ...
