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Donna Strickland

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Donna Strickland

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Also known as D. Strickland, Donna Theo Strickland

Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate

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Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist and university teacher whose work focuses on optics, laser science, and nonlinear optics. She was born in Guelph in 1959 and received her education at McMaster University and the University of Rochester, where she studied under doctoral advisor Gérard Mourou. Her professional career has included positions at the University of Waterloo, the National Research Council Canada, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Strickland has received numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Sloan Fellowship, and the BBC 100 Women award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Royal Society of Canada, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She has also served as a president within her professional organizations.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Instructor's Manual for Circulating Arguments
  • Circulating Arguments
  • Instructor's Review Copy for Circulationg Arguments
  • The writing program interrupted
  • The managerial unconscious in the history of composition studies

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Pembury
Active from
1981-04-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,613x

  2. Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology&lt;SUBTITLE&gt;A Proposal for Reporting&lt;/SUBTITLE&gt;

    · 2000 · cited 18,066x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  4. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    · 2021 · cited 12,118x

  5. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

    · 1988 · cited 11,811x

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Quotes

  • “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. Hopefully, in time, it will start to move forward at a faster rate. I’m honoured to be one of those women.”
  • “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. I couldn’t do athletic stuff, I wasn’t artistic, I have no musical ear, and I wasn’t good at writing. So I was pretty narrow in what I could do. I wasn’t thinking, “Can I do science?” I was thinking, “That’s the only thing I can do, so let’s do it."”
  • “If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2018

    “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

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Encyclopedic overview

Donna Theo Strickland (born May 27, 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 practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Strickland 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. She has gone on to have the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Prize being set in her name.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Donna Strickland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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