These are the people we should fete as they spend their lives giving to the humanities then sometimes die in poverty - not athletes and movie stars who seek self-glorification and riches.
She now has a permanent employee of the month parking spot at the UW !
A Canadian physicist has received one of science's highest honors.
Donna Strickland, a professor at the University of Waterloo, is one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics and collected the award with a big smile in Sweden today.
The Nobel committee says Strickland and French scientist Gerard Mourou will each receive a quarter of the US$1.01 million prize for their joint work on laser physics.
Strickland's win makes her only the third woman to win the Physics prize, and the first Canadian female scientist to do so.
Her prize-winning work was conducted in the early 1980s while she was completing her PhD under Mourou's supervision.
She and Mourou discovered Chirped Pulse Amplification, a technique that underpins today's short-pulse, high-intensity lasers, which have become a key part of corrective eye surgeries.
https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/uws-donna-strickland-collects-nobel-prize-1154045
She now has a permanent employee of the month parking spot at the UW !
A Canadian physicist has received one of science's highest honors.
Donna Strickland, a professor at the University of Waterloo, is one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics and collected the award with a big smile in Sweden today.
The Nobel committee says Strickland and French scientist Gerard Mourou will each receive a quarter of the US$1.01 million prize for their joint work on laser physics.
Strickland's win makes her only the third woman to win the Physics prize, and the first Canadian female scientist to do so.
Her prize-winning work was conducted in the early 1980s while she was completing her PhD under Mourou's supervision.
She and Mourou discovered Chirped Pulse Amplification, a technique that underpins today's short-pulse, high-intensity lasers, which have become a key part of corrective eye surgeries.
https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/uws-donna-strickland-collects-nobel-prize-1154045