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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 Gérard 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)