Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
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Donna Theo Strickland CC FRS FRSC HonFInstP 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1959 (age 64 years), Guelph, Canada
Education: University of Rochester (1989), McMaster University (1981), and Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics
Spouse: Douglas Dykaar
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Research interests: Lasers and Optics
Thesis: Development of an Ultra-Bright Laser and an Application to Multi-photon Ionization (1988)