Donna Strickland
Donna Theo Strickland 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. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
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- Born in
- Guelph
- Educated at
- McMaster UniversityGuelph Collegiate Vocational InstituteUniversity of Rochester
- Awards
- 🏆 BBC 100 Women🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Fellow of the Optical Society🏆 Sloan Fellowship🏆 Companion of the Order of Canada
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gérard Mourou
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1959
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