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
GTE. She earned her PhD in physics in 1977 from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the dissertation ''Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Residual Resistivities of Highly Disordered Lanthanum-Gold Films'' and was named a
Fellow of the IEEE
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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
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 1995.
References
External links
Joanne La Course OSA Living History,
The Optical Society
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Laser researchers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women
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