In Review

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PRIZED MOMENT: King Carl Gustaf of Sweden presents the Nobel Prize in Physics to Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD) during the Nobel awards ceremony last December in Stockholm. Recognized for work that paved the way for lasers to be used in surgery, technology, manufacturing, and other applications, Strickland, who shared one-half of the prize with her Rochester doctoral advisor Gérard Mourou, is only the third woman in history to receive the physics prize. She’s now a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.