On October 2nd, 2018, Strickland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on Chirped Pulse Amplification with her doctoral adviser Gerard Mourou.
Strickland and Mourou published their pioneering work "Compression of Amplified Chirped Optical Pulses" in 1985 while Strickland was still a doctoral student under Mourou. This high- intensity laser technique has enabled doctors to perform millions of corrective laser eye surgeries.
Strickland is the first female Nobel Physics laureate in 55 years, and the third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Marie Curiein 1903, and Marie Goeppert-Mayer in 1963.
Friday, October 5, 2018
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