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Our neighbour the Nobel

In 2018, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to for his work on ultra-short, extremely high-intensity laser pulses—the so-called "chirped pulse amplification" (CPA).

Gérard Mourou, here with his wife on the terrace of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cafeteria, responded to the invitation of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ physicist Greg de Temmerman. ''Very, very impressive,'' he commented after visiting the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ construction site. (Click to view larger version...)
Gérard Mourou, here with his wife on the terrace of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cafeteria, responded to the invitation of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ physicist Greg de Temmerman. ''Very, very impressive,'' he commented after visiting the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ construction site.
Last week, the French physicist and his wife came to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ as neighbours. Throughout his childhood, Mourou spent the long French summer vacations with his grandparents in a nearby village.

The Nobel Prize was responding to an invitation from Greg de Temmerman, a plasma physicist at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, following a recent conference in Marseille where both Mourou and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Director-General Bernard Bigot were plenary speakers.

Although he had never come to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ before, Mourou has followed the project from afar, catching an occasional glimpse of the worksite when he would return to his grandparents' village.

"What I knew is that there is a very capable team managing this immensely ambitious project and that success can now be contemplated."

Whether a Nobel Prize or not, a visitor to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ experiences something of a shock—the sheer size of the buildings and assembly tools, the volumes, the maze-like galleries... "Very, very impressive," he commented after his tour. "I have seen many large scientific installations—CERN, the Laser Mégajoule, NIF—but this is quite unique. And one really feels that things are progressing."


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