2025: Donna Strickland
The 2025 Einstein Lectures focused on laser physics and optics. The Canadian Nobel Prize winner Prof. Donna Strickland spent three evenings discussing the groundbreaking generation of ultrashort laser pulses and their use in research, medicine, and climate observation.
Donna Strickland is a physics professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 together with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. Donna Strickland was only the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963, 55 years later.
Video Lectures 2025
The Nobel Laureate Who Makes Molecular Movies
This year’s Einstein Lectures involve sharp shooting. But not bullets, of course. It’s ultrashort laser pulses. On three evenings in Bern, physicist Donna Strickland explains how her Nobel-winning inventions enrich science and medicine.