the first x. ray picture of the d.n.a. molecule vital for identifying its structure. since the introduction of the nobel prize is one hundred eighteen years ago only three percent of the awards for science have gone to women. and only one has gone to a german woman cristiana newsline fall hard with a prize in physiology or medicine for her research on the genetics of fruit flies. most recently twenty eighteen saw canada's donna strickland becoming the first woman in fifty five years to secure the nobel prize in physics for her pioneering work on pulse lasers and. many female scientists are sharing their stories under the hash tag women in