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Strickland's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2018.

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Not only did Strickland help the development of the revolutionise laser physics, but also brought attention to the lack of women in her field. Her career set examples for other woman physicist and she has worked to bring more women into her department at Waterloo University. "We need to celebrate women physicists because they're out there... I'm honoured to be one of those woman" - Donna Strickland.

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These are two diffraction gratings, the one place in the front was used in experiments by Donna Strickland, and the one behind used at the University of Rochester.

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Strickland has been focused on pushing the boundaries of ultrafast optical science to new wavelength ranges such as the mid-infrared and the ultraviolet using techniques such as two-color or multi-frequency methods, as well as Raman generations. She has also been working on high-power lasers in the microcrystalline lens of the human eye.

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Strickland and her laser group at University of Waterloo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_e7c085LM

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Donna Strickland: Nobel Lecture in Physics 2018

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"Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do."

"Do what you love and what you think you are good at."

"It is truly an amazing feeling when you know that you have built something that no one else ever has - and it actually works."

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In 2018 Donna was listed as one BBC´s 100 Woman.

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Strickland wearing laser goggles

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Donna Strickland and her Husband Douglas Dykaar on their wedding day

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Strickland is married to Douglas Dykaar, and she has two children. Hannah a graduate student in astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and Adam who is studying comedy at Humber College.

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Strickland was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019, one of Canada's highest civilian honours.

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Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing chirped pulse amplification with her supervisor at the time.

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Donna is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada, where she has taught for the past two decades now as the associate chair of the physics department and head of the university's Ultrafast Laser Group.

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From 1988-1991 Strickland was a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada where she worked with Paul Corkum in the Ultra Phenomena Section. She worked in the laser division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1991-1992 and joined the technical staff of Princeton University.

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In 2018 Donna was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics as well as the Sloan Research Fellowship, and Premier Research Excellence Award and a Cottrell Scholar Award.

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Donna wrote her thesis, on the Development of Ultra-Bright laser and an Application to Multiphoton Ionization.

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https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/people-profiles/donna-strickland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Strickland
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/strickland/facts/#:~:text=with%20two%20children.-,Work,science%2C%20the%20military%20and%20security
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/donna-strickland

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Donna, and Gerard Mourou developed Chirped Pulse Amplification (while at the University of Rochester). CPA for short enabled the most intense laser pulses ever and the research has led to tools with applications in medicine, industry, science, the military and security.

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At McMaster University she was on of the three woman in a class of twenty five people.

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Donna Strickland as a PhD student at the University of Rochester

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After graduating from Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Donna attended McMaster University due to the engineering physics program including lasers and electro-optics areas that interested her.

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Donna when she was a child with her siblings and parents

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Born May 27, 1959 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her mother was an English teacher and her father an electrical engineer. In her high school years she excelled in math, physics