Donna Strickland
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Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on creating short, intense laser pulses. Her achievements in physics are significant because they advanced our ability to manipulate light in powerful ways and demonstrated important breakthroughs in optical science.
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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.
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