Lene Hau
Lene Vestergaard Hau (born November 13, 1959 in Vejle , Denmark ) is a Danish physicist . In 1999, she headed a team at Harvard University that managed to use a Bose-Einstein condensate to slow down light to around 17 meters per second . In 2001 the group managed to completely stop the light for a moment.
Hau studied mathematics and physics at Aarhus University (pre-diploma in mathematics 1984, diploma in physics 1986). She spent a few months at CERN and in 1988 as a Carlsberg Fellow at the Rowland Institute for Science at Harvard University . There she turned from theoretical physics to experimental work in the field of Bose-Einstein condensates . With the work carried out there, she completed her doctorate in Aarhus in 1991 (Bound states of guided matter waves: An atom and a charged wire). Since 1999 she has been Gordon McKay Professor for Applied Physics there.
In 2001 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2009 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . For 2019 she was awarded the Olav Thon Foundation Prize , the Lars Onsager Lecture and the Dirac Medal of the University of New South Wales .
Individual evidence
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Lene Hau. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Lene Hau at PhysicsCentral (English)
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| SURNAME | Hau, Lene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hau, Lene Vestergaard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vejle , Denmark |