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Gérard Mourou
French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gérard Albert Mourou (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist. He worked in electrical engineering and lasers.
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Born | Gérard Albert Mourou (1944-06-22) June 22, 1944 (age 80) Albertville, France |
Other names | GA Mourou |
Known for | Chirped pulse amplification |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | École Polytechnique ENSTA ParisTech University of Rochester University of Michigan |
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With Donna Strickland, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their co-invention of a technique called chirped pulse amplification, or CPA.[1]
In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between Kerr effect and self-diffraction by ionization act as waveguides for the beam.