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Donna Strickland cards.

Six two-sided 4” x 6” 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).

Invitations for President and Vice-Chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur.

Invitations sent to President and Vice-Chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur for a reception held on December 9, 2018 in honour of the 2018 Nobel Laureates and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony on December 10, 2018 in Sweden. Also includes a visitor information card and two blank envelopes.

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Nobel Laureates 2018 postcard.

A rectangular postcard featuring an illustration of head and shoulder portraits of all Nobel Laureates in 2018 including Donna Strickland. The postcard was designed by Niklas Elmehed and likely sold by the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. File also includes a brown-paper gift bag from the Nobel Prize Museum.

Nobel Prize chocolate wrapper by Marou.

A chocolate bar wrapper created by Vincent Mourou, co-founder of Marou chocolate and son of Gérard Mourou, with the help of co-founder Sam Maruta and Rice Creative partner Joshua Breidenbach to commemorate Gérard Mourou (Haut-collège of École Polytechnique) and optical physicist Donna Strickland’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) technique. The design of the wrapper featured Mourou and Strickland’s condensed three-page prize winning paper with much of the technical jargon replaced with the word “chocolate.”

The wrapper in the file only includes the altered copy of the three-page paper that was wrapped around the gold foil lining the chocolate bar. It does not include the additional two-sided enclosure that featured white paper with gold ink listing the name of the chocolate bar, the event, and the flavour inside on the exterior side and luminescent triangles on the interior side.

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Press clippings.

Press clippings from the Waterloo Region Record and Toronto Star featuring articles about Donna Strickland receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics during the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10, 2018.

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Replica Nobel Prize medal.

A replica of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics medal that was awarded to optical physicist Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou (Haut-collège of École Polytechnique) for their Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) technique. File also includes a blue medal case.

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The Nobel Prize 2018 in Physics: Tools made of light : posters.

Two copies of a poster titled, The Nobel Prize 2018 in Physics: Tools made of light, created by The Royal Swedish Academy of Science. The poster features pictures of all three Nobel Prize in Physics recipients: Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland as well as information and infographics about their groundbreaking inventions.

University of Waterloo. Office of the President.

University of Waterloo. Office of the President.

Accrual consists of architectural and campus development and building plans, and a City of Waterloo map. Included are plans for the Student Services Building (which was later named Ira G. Needles Hall), Psychology Building No. 30, Math and Computer Building No. 17, and rental buildings at 514 and 419 Phillip Street.

University of Waterloo. Office of the President.

University of Waterloo. Office of the President.

Accrual consists of items received by Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, when he attended the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 2018. During the ceremony, Donna Strickland, associate professor of physics and astronomy, received the Nobel Prize for her work.

University of Waterloo. Office of the President.