EurekAlert!: Nobel physics laureate Gerard Mourou awarded honorary doctorate at Duesseldorf University
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Gérard Mourou
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 (petawatt) laser pulses.
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science · French physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1944) · physicist · university teacher · researcher · also Gérard Mourou, G. Mourou, Gérard Albert Mourou, Gérard A. Mourou, G Mourou, Mourou
Born 22 June 1944 · Q556543
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2019· 1 entry
2018· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2018).
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Awarded Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2018).
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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
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2016).
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Won Frederic Ives Medal (2016).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
To represent the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), went viral
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Charles Hard Townes Award (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Lazare-Carnot Prize (2007).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Quantum Electronics Award (2004).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1999).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded R. W. Wood Prize (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
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 teraw
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1988· 1 entry
Where he became the founding director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science in 1990 or 1991
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1977· 1 entry
Where he and his then student Donna Strickland produced their Nobel prize-winning work in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the university in the 1980s
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Doctor of Science (1973).
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1970· 1 entry
Studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University, doctorate (1970).
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-06-22.
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