Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for groundbreaking advances in laser physics

[Headhumpy]

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/press-release/

One of the laureates is Donna Strickland, who becomes the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. The previous two are Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903).

[Conely]

if the lasers aren't for sawing monkeys in half like in Congo then fuck off

[Clovis]

If anybody hasn't read about Marie Curie and the Radium Girls, they really should - it's a fascinating and sad story.

[ignhelper]

One step closer to pew pew lasers

[Iknowtoomuch]

Nothing that doesn't result in laser guns deserves a Nobel Prize for "innovations in the field of laser physics".