Members of the Nobel Committee
for Physics sit in front of a screen displaying portraits of this
year's Laureates: Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland.
Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou were awarded one half of the award, with the other half going to Arthur Ashkin. Strickland is only the third women to be awarded a Nobel in physics ever. (The other two were Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963.)