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Gérard Albert Mourou (French: [ʒeʁaʁ muʁu]; born 22 June 1944) is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers.
Facts. © Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud. Gérard Mourou. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018. Born: 22 June 1944, Albertville, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Prize motivation: “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Gérard Albert Mourou, né le 22 juin 1944 à Albertville [1], est un physicien français qui s'est investi dans le domaine des champs électriques et du laser. Il est le co-inventeur d'une technique d' amplification par dérive de fréquence qui fut utilisée pour créer des impulsions ultracourtes de très haute puissance (de l ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
Jun 18, 2024 · Gérard Mourou (born June 22, 1944, Albertville, France) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of chirped pulse amplification (CPA), a method of making pulses of laser light of high power and short duration.
Telephone interview with Gérard Mourou following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2 October 2018. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
Oct 31, 2018 · French Nobel laureate for physics Gérard Mourou, one of the inventors of the laser technology with which eye-correction surgery is done, talks about the incredible accident that led to its...
