Gérard Mourou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gérard Mourou

French physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1944

Place of Birth: Albertville, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gérard Albert Mourou (French: [?e?a? mu?u]; 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.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" which act as waveguides for the beam thus preventing divergence.