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Gérard Mourou
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 80 |
Date of birth | June 22,1944 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Albertville |
France | |
Nationality | French |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
École Polytechnique | |
University of Rochester | |
ENSTA ParisTech | |
Books | LAT 2010: International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies : 23-26 August 2010, Kazan, Russian Federation |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Education | Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus |
Notable student | Donna Strickland |
Affiliations | Ecole Polytechnique |
Interests | Laser |
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ID | 674094 |
Gérard Mourou Life story
Gérard Albert Mourou is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity laser pulses.
Physics Nobel Prize rewards science on a 'tiny timescale'
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Physics Nobel rewards science at the smallest scales
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... 2020 - Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the prize for their 2019 - James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the prize for 2018 - Donna Strickland, Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou were awarded the prize for their 2017 - Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish earned the award 2016 - David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz shared the award for 2015 - were awarded the prize the discovery that neutrinos ...
Nobel physics prize: 'ground-breaking' win, for the planet, and Big Bang
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... follow Paul Previous winners of the Nobel prize in physics, computer simulation of gravitational waves from two merging black holes 2018 - Donna Strickland, Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou received the award for their 2017 - Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish earned the award...