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Donna Strickland
born 1959
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryDonna 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
May 27, 1959
Guelph
Citizenship
Canada
Occupations & fields
physicistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in PhysicsFellow of the Optical SocietySloan FellowshipBBC 100 WomenCompanion of the Order of CanadaFellow of the Royal Society
Notable works
Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses
- Field and occupation
- kanadská fyzička a akademička
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