Dr. Donna Strickland, Nobel Laureate, at Mines 02/13/2024
Dr. Donna Strickland
Nobel Laureate
02/13/2024
It was an honor and a privilege for the Physics Department to host Dr. Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo, Ontario), 2018 Physics Nobel Prize recipient and only the 3rd woman to receive the highly coveted distinction after Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963). Dr. Donna Strickland and her former PhD advisor Dr. Gérard Mourou were recognized by the Nobel committee “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”. Dr. Strickland and our very own Dr. Squier were both graduate students in the same group at the University of Rochester (NY), where the Nobel-winning research was conducted. Dr. Ohno, another member of our department and a fellow Canadian, crossed paths with Dr. Strickland during a summer long undergraduate research opportunity program in Ottawa, Ontario.
It was an honor and a privilege for the Physics Department to host Dr. Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo, Ontario), 2018 Physics Nobel Prize recipient and only the 3rd woman to receive the highly coveted distinction after Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963). Dr. Donna Strickland and her former PhD advisor Dr. Gérard Mourou were recognized by the Nobel committee “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”. Dr. Strickland and our very own Dr. Squier were both graduate students in the same group at the University of Rochester (NY), where the Nobel-winning research was conducted. Dr. Ohno, another member of our department and a fellow Canadian, crossed paths with Dr. Strickland during a summer long undergraduate research opportunity program in Ottawa, Ontario.
