English subtitles for clip: File:CAM Video- 2018 Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland.webm

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There's two answers.

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So one answer is my dad took me to the Science Center

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when I was five years old and said

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that lasers are the way of the future,

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because I was born about the same time as the laser.

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But I don't actually remember that.

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So when I was looking for universities and where to go,

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McMaster University had a program in engineering physics.

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And part of that was lasers and electro-optics.

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And I just thought, that sounds neat.

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I'm going to go there and do that.

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And so I ended up working with a laser professor for research.

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And that was the beginning.