Atoms Quote by Donna Strickland

“What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense focal point that it does this damage where the electrons come off the atoms, you could actually put your laser and scan it over your cornea and it would cut underneath that.”

Donna Strickland

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I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have.

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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.

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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…

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Sometimes you just have to be happy you get one chance in life and not worry too much about whether you get two.

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