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.

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.

A booklet containing the programme for Donna Strickland’s trip to Sweden during Nobel Week between December 5, 2018, and December 16, 2018. The programme outlines all the events and activities Strickland was scheduled to participate in during the visit.

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.

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.

An enamel pin created by the Optical Society (now Optica) to commemorate Donna Strickland’s Nobel Prize in Physics. The pin features an image of Strickland using a piece of equipment, possibly a chirped pulse laser apparatus.

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).