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Donna Strickland

1959 - Today

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Donna Theo Strickland (born 27 May 1959) is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.She served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica (formerly OSA), and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donna Strickland has received more than 981,621 page views. Her biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Donna Strickland is the 333rd most popular physicist (up from 344th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Canada (up from 96th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Donna Stricklands by language

Over the past year Donna Strickland has had the most page views in the with 67,447 views, followed by Spanish (18,000), and German (6,914). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (56,500.00%), Hakka (221.34%), and Catalan (145.35%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Donna Strickland ranks 333 out of 851. Before her are Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, Joseph Swan, Pierre Louis Dulong, and Ami Argand. After her are Otto Schmidt, Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, and John Stewart Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Donna Strickland ranks 56. Before her are Frank Darabont, Michael P. Anderson, Rosanna Arquette, Christian Wulff, Tupou VI, and Ving Rhames. After her are Per Gessle, Marwan Barghouti, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Sam Raimi, Nina Hartley, and Youssou N'Dour.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Donna Strickland ranks 79 out of 1,622. Before her are Catherine O'Hara (1954), Jason Priestley (1969), David H. Hubel (1926), Conrad Bain (1923), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), and Geneviève Bujold (1942). After her are Denis Villeneuve (1967), Henry Taube (1915), Bonar Law (1858), Shannon Tweed (1957), Avril Lavigne (1984), and Yvonne De Carlo (1922).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Donna Strickland ranks 5. Before her are Willard Boyle (1924), Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Jim Peebles (1935). After her are Louis Slotin (1910), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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