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Canadian optical physicist who co-invented chirped pulse amplification (CPA), a method of generating ultrashort, high-intensity laser pulses that revolutionized laser physics and enabled applications from corrective eye surgery to industrial manufacturing. She shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin, becoming only the third woman to win the physics prize. The CPA technique, developed during her doctoral work at the University of Rochester, is now used in millions of laser eye surgeries annually. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo.
Source: Nobel Prize