Lene Vestergaard Hau
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Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist best known for her pioneering work in slowing and stopping light in ultracold atomic gases.
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| instanceOf |
Danish person
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academic → experimental physicist → physicist → |
| academicDegree |
PhD in physics
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| almaMater |
Aarhus University
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| awardReceived |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
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Danish Order of the Dannebrog → Harvard Ledlie Prize → MacArthur Fellowship → Ole Rømer Medal → Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters membership → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Denmark
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| dateOfBirth |
1959-11-13
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| doctoralAdvisor |
Poul Martin Bendix
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| employer |
Harvard University
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| familyName |
Hau
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| fieldOfWork |
Bose–Einstein condensates
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atomic physics → nonlinear optics → physics → quantum optics → |
| gender |
female
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| givenName |
Lene
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| influencedBy |
developments in Bose–Einstein condensation
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| knownFor |
electromagnetically induced transparency experiments
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slowing light in ultracold atomic gases → stopping light in a Bose–Einstein condensate → |
| languageSpoken |
Danish
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English → |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Physical Society → Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters → |
| name |
Lene Vestergaard Hau
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| nationality |
Danish
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| notableAchievement |
first to bring light pulses to a complete stop and later retrieve them
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first to slow light to walking speed in a laboratory → |
| notableWork |
1999 Nature paper on light slowed to 17 meters per second
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2001 work on stopping and storing light pulses in a Bose–Einstein condensate → |
| occupation |
research scientist
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university professor → |
| placeOfBirth |
Vejle, Denmark
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| positionHeld |
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University
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| researchFocus |
control of light propagation in ultracold atomic media
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quantum information storage in atomic ensembles → |
| workplace |
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Harvard University Department of Physics → |
Referenced by (3)
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Oersted Medal
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Lene Vestergaard Hau
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Niels Bohr Institute
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