LC control no. | no2019079275 |
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Personal name heading | Strickland, Donna, 1959- |
Birth date | 1959-05-27 |
Place of birth | Guelph (Ont.) |
Affiliation | University of Waterloo. Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Profession or occupation | Physicists Physics teachers Women Nobel Prize winners Nobel Prize winners |
Found in | Doctoral 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 GeĢrard 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) |