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Lene Hau

1959 - Today

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Lene Vestergaard Hau (Danish: [ˈle̝ːnə ˈvestɐˌkɒˀ ˈhɑw]; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lene Hau has received more than 611,392 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Lene Hau is the 753rd most popular physicist (down from 710th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 550th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lene Hau ranks 753 out of 851. Before her are Gilbert Walker, Juan Martín Maldacena, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Miguel Alcubierre, Arthur Schuster, and Grigory Landsberg. After her are Conyers Herring, Bengt Edlén, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Yoseph Imry, Balfour Stewart, and Rolf Landauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Lene Hau ranks 378. Before her are Päivi Räsänen, Sylvia Hanika, Kathy Hilton, Daniel Goldhagen, Dave Schultz, and François Chau. After her are Noureddine Bedoui, Ajay Banga, Gregg Araki, Chris Hadfield, Ryuta Kawashima, and Mats Näslund.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Lene Hau ranks 584 out of 1,032. Before her are Dorrit Willumsen (1940), Per Røntved (1949), John Hansen (1938), John Jensen (1965), Iván García (null), and Søren Marinus Jensen (1879). After her are Yussuf Poulsen (1994), Michael Pedersen Friis (1857), Kevin Magnussen (1992), Søren Malling (1964), Emmelie de Forest (1993), and Aage Larsen (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Lene Hau ranks 8. Before her are Niels Bohr (1885), Aage Bohr (1922), Ludvig Lorenz (1829), Ole Worm (1588), Martin Knudsen (1871), and Henrik Svensmark (1958).

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