Joanne LaCourse

{{Short description|American laser scientist}}

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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{{r|diss}} and was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995, "for contributions to the understanding of dynamic characteristics of semiconductor lasers".{{r|fieee}}

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url=https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/1996|

title = IEEE Fellows 1996 | IEEE Communications Society}}

She was vice-president for membership of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 1995.{{r|vp}}