Physicist
Donna Strickland
Shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for chirped pulse amplification, the technique behind laser eye surgery. Born in Guelph, Ontario.
Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
- Born
- 1959-05-27, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1959-05-27, Guelph, Ontario, Canada · time unknown, noon chart
America/Torontothe zone used then
America/TorontoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 5°36′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 15°20′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Taurus | 27°44′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 18°59′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 27°21′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 26°00′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 5°47′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Leo | 12°50′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 4°47′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 1°43′ | Direct |
Donna Strickland is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Donna Strickland was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.