Donna Strickland
Nobel panel makes announcement
Professor Donna Stickland, of Waterloo University, will share in the 2018 Nobel Prize for physics. Strickland will split half the $1,000,000 award with Gerard Mourou of France with whom she collaborated in an article on the development of ultra-short optical pulses used in eye surgery. The other half will be given to Arthur Ashkin of the US. The Guelph-born Strickland, who is an associate professor at Waterloo, told the academy she was left in disbelief when she got the call from Stockholm notifying her of the win, saying she thought it was “crazy.”
