File 1 - Donna Strickland cards.

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Donna Strickland cards.

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    UWA5-2022-19-1

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    • 2018 (Creation)

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    6 cards : col. ; 4 x 6 cm

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    Six copies of cards featuring an image of Donna Strickland designed by Beyond Curie, a design project celebrating women in STEM. The card features an image of Strickland using a piece of equipment, possibly a chirped pulse laser apparatus. The cards were sold by Beyond Curie as part of a 42-card set each featuring a small description about a different scientist or technologist. The Donna Strickland card was card number 42. File also includes four envelopes.

    Caption on back of the card: “DONNA STRICKLAND is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. In 2018, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses, called chirped pulse amplification (CPA).

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    Transferred by the Office of the President in 2018.

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    • English

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      Scanned as TIF file May 2026.

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