Donna Strickland
Nobel laurate
Donna Theo Strickland (born May 27, 1959) is a Canadian physicist. She was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.[1] She worked in the field of lasers.[2] In 2018, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Gérard Mourou, as they both developed chirped pulse amplification. This is useful in laser micromachining, laser surgery, medicine, and in science.
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She is an associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Waterloo.[3] She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wikipedia did not publish a draft article about her until after she won this prize. This was one famous example of how Wikipedia has been unfair to women scientists.[4]
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References
change- ↑ Strickland, Donna T. (1988). "Development of an ultra-bright laser and an application to multi-photon ionization" (PDF). Laboratory for Laser Energetics. University of Rochester. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ↑ "Donna Strickland - Physics and Astronomy". 5 April 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ↑ "Donna Strickland - Physics and Astronomy". 5 April 2012.
- ↑ "Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry". the Guardian. 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2023-01-14.