Gérard Mourou
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 81 |
| 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
... 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
... 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...
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