The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-02
"for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
Affiliations:
- University of Waterloo – Waterloo, Canada
Donna Strickland
Born: 1959-05-27 in Guelph, Canada
Gender: female
Field: Canadian physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate
Biography
Donna Theo Strickland 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.