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Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

Donna Strickland in Stockholm, December 2018. Donna Strickland EM1B5760 (46183560632) (cropped) · Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Donna Strickland, born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1959 and working at the University of Waterloo, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses.

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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics as recorded by NobelPrize.org.

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Donna Strickland – Facts – 2018 - NobelPrize.org ↗

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