Strickland Named Inaugural Fellow at CAP: People in the News: 07/27/22

Nobel laureate Donna Strickland was named as one of the first fellows of the Canadian Association of Physicists. Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. She is a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics for the development of chirped pulse amplification, which amplifies beams without damaging the amplifier.

Donna Strickland. Courtesy of the University of Waterloo.

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