When was Gérard Mourou born?

Gérard Mourou was born on 22 June 1944 in Albertville.

Where did Gérard Mourou study?

Gérard Mourou was educated at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Grenoble Alpes University.

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Gérard Mourou

French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

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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. 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 (petawatt) laser pulses.

Quick facts

Born: 22 June 1944 wd
Place of birth: Albertville wd
Citizenship: France wd
Occupation: physicist, university teacher, researcher wd
Education: Pierre and Marie Curie University, Grenoble Alpes University wd

Awards wd

Knight of the Legion of Honour (2012)
IEEE Quantum Electronics Award (2004)
Frederic Ives Medal (2016)
Charles Hard Townes Award (2009)
Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2016)
R. W. Wood Prize (1995)
Lazare-Carnot Prize (2007)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2018)
honorary doctorate at the Laval University
Fellow of the Optical Society
IEEE Fellow
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2018)
IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1999)

About

In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between the self-focusing refraction (see Kerr effect) and self-attenuating diffraction by ionization and rarefaction of a laser beam of terawatt intensities in the atmosphere creates "filaments" that act as waveguides for the beam, thus preventing divergence.

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When was Gérard Mourou born?: Gérard Mourou was born on 22 June 1944 in Albertville.
Where did Gérard Mourou study?: Gérard Mourou was educated at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Grenoble Alpes University.

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