Donna Strickland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner
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Place of Birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
About Donna Strickland
- Donna Theo Strickland (born 27 May 1959) 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 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.
- In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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