Donna Strickland

Donna Theo Strickland 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.

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Who was born first?

• Donna Strickland and Saul Perlmutter were born the same year
• Donna Strickland and Koichi Tanaka were born the same year
• Donna Strickland and Takaaki Kajita were born the same year
• Donna Strickland and Steven H. Strogatz were born the same year
• Donna Strickland and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim were born the same year

Timeline

1. Ameenah Gurib-FakimOctober 17, 1959 – present
2. Donna Strickland (this page)May 27, 1959 – present
3. Koichi TanakaAugust 3, 1959 – present
4. Saul PerlmutterSeptember 22, 1959 – present
5. Steven H. StrogatzAugust 13, 1959 – present
6. Takaaki KajitaMarch 9, 1959 – present

Related

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• Isaac NewtonDecember 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAugust 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832
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• Immanuel KantApril 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804
• René DescartesMarch 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650
• Thomas EdisonFebruary 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931
• Marie CurieNovember 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934