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Donna Strickland

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Donna Theo Strickland (born 27 May 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. She served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica (formerly OSA), and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donna Strickland is the 388th most popular physicist (down from 334th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Canada (down from 79th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Donna Strickland ranks 388 out of 851. Before her are August Kundt, Abram Ioffe, Vladimir Fock, Edward Witten, George Johnstone Stoney, and Qian Xuesen. After her are Christopher Polhem, Manfred von Ardenne, Léon Brillouin, Hiroshi Amano, Moritz von Jacobi, and Walter A. Shewhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Donna Strickland ranks 80. Before her are Byung-Chul Han, Nirmala Sitharaman, Miki Matsubara, Wim Hof, Rosanna Arquette, and Victoria Abril. After her are Satoru Iwata, Donna Murphy, Xiomara Castro, Azali Assoumani, Hassan Diab, and Benny Gantz.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Donna Strickland ranks 120 out of 1,622. Before her are Norma Shearer (1902), Mark Carney (1965), Denny Doherty (1940), Norman Jewison (1926), Jean Chrétien (1934), and Thomas Christopher Collins (1947). After her are Eric McCormack (1963), Joe Weider (1919), William H. McNeill (1917), Margot Kidder (1948), Raymond Burr (1917), and Martin Short (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Donna Strickland ranks 6. Before her are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Willard Boyle (1924), Jim Peebles (1935), and Louis Slotin (1910). After her are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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