Gérard Mourou: The Story Behind the Nobel Prize Winner’s “Extreme Light”
The world of physics lost a bit of its mystery in the 1980s, thanks to the groundbreaking work of Gérard Mourou and his doctoral student, Donna Strickland. Their development of a technique for creating ultrashort, high-power laser pulses revolutionized fields ranging from medicine to manufacturing, ultimately earning them the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared … Read more