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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 316,776 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Gérard Mourou is the 254th most popular physicist (up from 277th in 2019), the 1,202nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,324th in 2019) and the 25th 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)

  • 9.62

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  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gérard Mourou ranks 254 out of 717. Before him are John B. Goodenough, David J. Wineland, Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, Serge Haroche, and Joseph Plateau. After him are Klaus Fuchs, Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, John Cockcroft, and Moshé Feldenkrais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Gérard Mourou ranks 79. Before him are Günter Netzer, Klaus Nomi, Bernhard Schlink, Serge Haroche, Jeroen Krabbé, and Thein Sein. After him are Donna Haraway, Askar Akayev, Killing of Peter Fechter, Bernard Hill, Leila Khaled, and Claudia Mori.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard Mourou ranks 1,202 out of 6,011. Before him are Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), and Sonia Rykiel (1930). After him are Louis Jourdan (1921), Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Maurice Ronet (1927), Lúcio Costa (1902), and Paul Sérusier (1864).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gérard Mourou ranks 25. Before him are Jacques Charles (1763), Hans Bethe (1906), Edme Mariotte (1620), Louis Néel (1904), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932). After him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), and Edmond Becquerel (1820).

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