Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland: Experimental Physics Is Fun! (#380)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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I had the pleasure of interviewing the one and only Donna Theo Strickland for our Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner series. Donna Theo Strickland is a renowned Canadian physicist widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 with her colleague Gérard Mourou for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. In this fun discussion between two experimental physicists, we talked about the Nobel Prize, the experimental minimum, why physics you can see is the coolest physics, lasers, pedagogy, and much more! Tune in. Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) How does Donna approach pedagogy? (01:00) What is the experimental minimum? (04:30) How did Donna reach her scientific breakthroughs? (06:26) What discovery won her the Nobel prize? (07:56) Laser technology (11:28) Gender inequality in science (15:46) Do scientists have a moral obligation to communicate science? (19:21) Final four existential questions (22:53) — Additional resources: 📢 Ownership of your health starts with AG1. Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 and 5 FREE AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase 👉 https://drinkag1.com/impossible ➡️ Follow me on your favorite platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we feature Donna Strickland, a world-renowned optical physicist widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to the field of pulsed lasers. In 2018, she was honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for the practical implementation of chirped pulse
0:15.8	amplification alongside her colleague Gerard Maroo.
0:19.2	Her brilliantly blazing research has left the lasting mark in many fields and most notably
0:24.0	it has significantly advanced laser eye surgery something I benefited from
0:27.6	myself many many years ago which has enabled doctors to help millions of people
0:31.6	around the world.
0:32.6	Donna fell in love of science early on,
0:34.9	and as she grew up, so did her love of science.
0:37.7	Today she'll share some of the love with us.
0:39.9	So buckle up and get ready to peek into the fascinating mind of a Nobel Laureate. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:59.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
1:01.0	Welcome everybody to this episode of the Into the Impossible
1:03.9	podcast. Today is a special segment, part of our series called Fake
1:08.3	like a Nobel Prize winner, and that's because we have an actual
1:11.4	honest to goodness Nobel Prize winner.
1:13.2	The fourth one has been in this room
1:15.0	and the 17th one that's been on the podcast.
1:17.2	So I'm just overjoyed the gratitude that Donna is here.
1:20.2	We're gonna talk about technology.
1:21.6	We're gonna nerd out as experimental physicists.
1:24.1	But the first thing I really wanted to talk about is pedagogy and sort of philosophically,
1:29.5	how do you approach dealing with students? Have you seen changes in your attitude or
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