Something to celebrate

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So, as a woman in STEM, I want to celebrate Profs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry (first all-female team to win any Nobel) for their work on Crispr, the "scissors" used to snip out selected bits of DNA, and also Prof Andrea Ghez for sharing the Nobel Prize in physics (along with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel) for her work on black holes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54432589
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54420240

Oh that's wonderful. Thank you for sharing

Yes, I noticed it was two women when I saw the headline.

Well done them

A bit of good news today. Well done to them

Hell yeah to Doudna and chapartier sharing the prize.

That's a fabulous achievement. Well done to them.

This is so great to see 😃

it sounds like an amazing development - great news indeed :¬))

It's fantastic!

Brilliant. Well done both.

Brilliant

Thats incredible
Huge congratulations!!

It’s fantastic

Thanks for posting this, a great achievement recognised.

I was listening to it on my earphones, when I was in home bargains earlier and actually said out loud, “BRILLIANT!” when I heard it! Much to the confusion and amusement of the couple passing by. 😁

Brilliant and well deserved 👏👏👏👏👏

I had seen the news about the chemistry prize but not the physics. Well done those women 💪

The reporting somewhat implies women haven't won the prize without men before, which I don't think is correct - iirc Curie and Hodgkin each won it individually.

No woman has ever won the Physics Nobel as a solo - always shared with two men. There are only 4 - Marie Curie in 1903, Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1962, Donna Strickland in 2018 and now Andrea Ghez. Very varied fields too.

Congratulations to all these high-achieving scientists.