The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-02
"for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
Affiliations:
- École Polytechnique – Palaiseau, France
- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Gérard Mourou
Born: 1944-06-22 in Albertville, France
Gender: male
Field: French physicist (born 1944)
Biography
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.