Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate · Canada · Scientists · Born 1959 · age 67
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Something wrong?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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, We wondered if it was a prank. But then I knew it was the right day, and it would have been a cruel prank.
Is that all, really? I thought there might have been more. We need to celebrate women physicists, because we’re out there.
In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn’t good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don’t know how they choose what to do.
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