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Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donna Theo Strickland CC FRS FRSC HonFInstP (born 27 May 1959)[1][2][3] is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification.[4] She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.[5]
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Born | Donna Theo Strickland (1959-05-27) 27 May 1959 (age 65) Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
Spouse | Doug Dykaar |
Awards | Nobel Prize (2018) |
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Thesis | Development of an Ultra-Bright Laser and an Application to Multi-photon Ionization (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Gérard Mourou |
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Discipline | Physics |
Sub-discipline | Optics |
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She served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica (formerly OSA), and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[6]