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McMaster had an engineering physics program and… one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, ‘Now doesn’t that sound cool. I just got to do that.’

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Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn’t have been thinking about lasers.

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I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.

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April 25, 2024

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.

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April 25, 2024

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn’t have been thinking about lasers.

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