Joanne S. LaCourse (also written as Joanne La Course and published as Joanne Snare and Joanne S. Manning) is an American laser scientist associated with

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. She earned her PhD in physics in 1977 from the

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with the dissertation ''Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Residual Resistivities of Highly Disordered Lanthanum-Gold Films'' and was named a

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in 1995, "for contributions to the understanding of dynamic characteristics of semiconductor lasers". She was vice-president for membership of the

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in 1995.

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