Gérard Mourou wins the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics

Gérard Mourou, professor and member of the Haut-collège of École Polytechnique, has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares this award with Donna Strickland (Canadian) for having jointly developed a method for generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. The third winner, Arthur Ashkin (American), also received the award for the invention of optical tweezers and their application to biological systems. The Swedish Academy particularly highlighted the use of these two techniques in the medical field. More pictures of Gérard Mourou (credit : Jérémy Barande – École Polytechnique). October 2018 - 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics : Statement about ELI project video 5 October 2018 - A French-South Korean International Joint Unit inaugurated in Seoul October 4, 2018 - Thirteen ocean solutions for climate change 3 October 2018 - Scientific misconduct : the CNRS announces penalties against two senior researchers 3 October 2018 - Smoking cessation : a genetic mutation involved in relapse 2 October 2018 - Gérard Mourou wins the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics 1st October 2018 - A research project in the French West Indies for repurposing Sargassum seaweed 1 October 2018 - A first : cross-country study looks at social integration among minority adolescents