https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4 en-us 2023-01-11 18:09:39 UTC 2025-10-21 20:46:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441246801 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]]> 2023-01-11 18:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441246801 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441251565 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441251565 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441252399 At McMaster University she was on of the three woman in a class of twenty five people.]]> 2023-01-11 18:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441252399 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441256016
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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441256016 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441257585 Donna wrote her thesis, on the Development of Ultra-Bright laser and an Application to Multiphoton Ionization.]]> 2023-01-11 18:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441257585 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441261110 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441261110 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441263859 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441263859 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441265348 In 2018 Donna was listed as one BBC´s 100 Woman. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441265348 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441267793 https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/people-profiles/donna-strickland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Strickland 
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https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/donna-strickland ]]> 2023-01-11 18:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441267793 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441271682 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441271682 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441278215 Strickland was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019, one of Canada's highest civilian honours.]]> 2023-01-11 18:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441278215 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441283115 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 18:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441283115 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441498177 "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."]]> 2023-01-11 22:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441498177 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441500747 Strickland wearing laser goggles]]> 2023-01-11 22:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441500747 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441504006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_e7c085LM ]]> 2023-01-11 22:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441504006 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441506264 Strickland and her laser group at University of Waterloo]]> 2023-01-11 22:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441506264 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441508601 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.]]> 2023-01-11 22:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441508601 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441510094 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 22:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441510094 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441512484 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.]]> 2023-01-11 22:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441512484 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441516046 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. ]]> 2023-01-11 22:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441516046 26kpeterson2 https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441516827 Strickland's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2018.]]> 2023-01-11 22:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/26kpeterson2/3b0o0ca13qai3xn4/wish/2441516827