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Strickland, Donna, 1959-

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Personal name headingStrickland, Donna, 1959-
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Birth date1959-05-27
Place of birthGuelph (Ont.)
AffiliationUniversity of Waterloo. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Profession or occupationPhysicists Physics teachers Women Nobel Prize winners Nobel Prize winners
Found inDoctoral degrees commencement ceremony, ©2019: audition (Donna Strickland)
Wikipedia, accessed May 28, 2019 (Donna Theo Strickland; b. May 27, 1959, Guelph, Ontario; Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with GeĢrard Mourou, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo. She served as fellow, vice president, and president of The Optical Society, and is currently chair of their Presidential Advisory Committee)