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Gérard Mourou is a French scientist and Nobel laureate in Physics for the invention of chirped pulse amplification. He is a professor at École polytechnique and University of Michigan, and has worked on ultrafast lasers and optical tweezers.
Gérard Mourou is a French physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 with Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Learn about his life, work and the chirped pulse amplification technique that has many applications, such as corrective eye surgeries.
Learn about the life and achievements of Gérard Mourou, the French physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for his work on chirped pulse amplification. Discover his childhood memories, his education, his research and his family.
Learn about Gérard Mourou, a French physicist who invented chirped pulse amplification, a method of generating short powerful laser pulses. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics with Arthur Ashkin and Donna Strickland.
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 2, 2018 · Gérard Mourou, the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is one of three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.”
Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland co-invented chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technology, which made ultrafast lasers possible. In this interview, he shares his early interest in ultrafast science, the discovery of CPA, and his involvement in laser fusion and Extreme Light Infrastructure.
