Donna Strickland

Donna Strickland
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Strickland during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, December 2018
Strickland in 2018
Born
Donna Theo Strickland

(1959-05-27) 27 May 1959 (age 65)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
SpouseDoug Dykaar
AwardsNobel Prize (2018)
Scholarly background
Alma mater
ThesisDevelopment of an Ultra-Bright Laser and an Application to Multi-photon Ionization (1988)
Doctoral advisorGérard Mourou
Scholarly work
DisciplinePhysics
Sub-disciplineOptics
Institutions
Main interests

Donna Theo Strickland (born 27 May 1959)[1][2][3] 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.[4] She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.[5]

She served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica (formerly OSA), and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[6] She has gone on to have the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Prize being set in her name.

  1. ^ Strickland, Donna Theo (1988). Development of an ultra-bright laser and an application to multi-photon ionization (PDF) (PhD). University of Rochester. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  2. ^ Lindinger, Manfred (2 October 2018). "Eine Zange aus lauter Licht". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Donna Strickland – Facts – 2018". Nobel Foundation. 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  4. ^ Sample, Ian; Davis, Nicola (2 October 2018). "Physics Nobel prize won by Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Donna Strickland". University of Waterloo. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  6. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2018: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019.