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Gérard Mourou

1944 - Today

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Gérard Albert Mourou (French: [ʒeʁaʁ muʁu]; born 22 June 1944) is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard Mourou has received more than 335,826 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Gérard Mourou is the 248th most popular physicist (up from 254th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from France (up from 1,198th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Physicist.

Gérard Mourou is most famous for his invention of the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) method, which has been used in the design of the laser amplifiers that are used in the third generation of the LIGO gravitational wave observatory.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gérard Mourou ranks 248 out of 851. Before him are Bertram Brockhouse, Alexey Ekimov, Patrick Blackett, Klaus Hasselmann, John Archibald Wheeler, and Jim Peebles. After him are Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, Ivar Giaever, Claude-Louis Navier, Brian Josephson, and Charles Wheatstone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Gérard Mourou ranks 73. Before him are Serge Haroche, Abdul Hamid, Klaus Nomi, Claudia Mori, Bernhard Schlink, and Jonathan Demme. After him are Nǃxau ǂToma, Kary Mullis, Ashraf Marwan, R. Lee Ermey, W. G. Sebald, and Gianni Morandi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard Mourou ranks 1,012 out of 6,770. Before him are Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Raymond Poulidor (1936), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Julien Green (1900), and Louis II of Anjou (1377). After him are Louise Bourgeois (1911), Eugène Scribe (1791), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Agnes of Poitou (1025), Tetricus I (250), and Raymond of Poitiers (1115).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gérard Mourou ranks 24. Before him are Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Alain Aspect (1947), and Edme Mariotte (1620). After him are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Anne L'Huillier (1958).

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