# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-mourou
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:19.279Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-mourou"
name: "Gérard Mourou"
slug: "gerard-mourou"
description: "Gérard Albert Mourou is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity (petawatt) laser pulses."
tagline: "French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%A9rard_Mourou%2C_2014.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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birthDate: "1944-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump