Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn't have been thinking about lasers. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay,… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Because the high-intensity pulses are short, the laser only damages the area where it's applied. The result is precise, clean cuts that are ideal… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot in the… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded.… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to be happy you get one chance in life and not worry too much about whether you get two. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
