Lene Vestergaard Hau was born on 13 November in Denmark. She was born to parents of white ethnicity and Danish nationality. She did her schooling in Denmark and later moved to the USA for higher studies. She was a very brilliant student since childhood. She often scored the highest numbers in class and proved to be a very brilliant student in different competitions as well.
She did her master's degree from the University of Aarhus which is in Denmark. She continued studying there and got a doctorate degree from the same university in She also researched at CERN which is the biggest and one of the highest regarded laboratories in the world. After getting her doctorate degree she moved to the Rowland Institute of Science which is at Massachusetts, USA. With her great wisdom, she set out to find different properties of light.
In her Harvard days, she along with her associates were able to slow down the light and also she was able to make it to a complete stop in its path. The slow light, however, could survive much time but the experiment was successful since no one has ever done that with a light particle. When she came into the 21st century the technology had evolved to a p
Lene Vestergaard Hau is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics and is also on the faculty of the Harvard Biophysics Program. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in , she was a senior scientist at the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Aarhus, Denmark. Hau led a team who succeeded in slowing a pulse of light to 15 miles per hour and also brought light to a stop. They took matters even further as they stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space, and subsequently revived it in a different location. In the process, the light pulse is converted to a perfect matter copy that can be stored - put on the shelf - sculpted, and then turned back to light. These results represent a new paradigm for information processing.
Hau has recently embarked on a new research program at the interface of the fields of light-matter interactions, nanoscience, and molecular and synthetic biology. The research involves fundamental studies of light-driven photosynthetic proteins coupled to engineered, inorganic nano-scale structures, and encompasses both natural and gene-engineered membrane protein
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Biography
Lene Vestergaard Hau was born in Vejle which is a town of about 50, inhabitants situated on the Vejle Fjord, northwest of Fredericia, on the east coast of Jutland. She did not come from a family with a background in science or mathematics [2]:-Neither of my parents had any background in science. My father was in the heating business and my mother worked in a store. But both of them believed in giving me the same advantages as my brother, which was very important to my education.Mathematics was the subject she liked best when at primary school and her achievements at this stage were so impressive that she was able to miss the final year of her primary education and enter directly into a gymnasium. She decided to study mathematics and physics at the University of Aarhus which was situated quite close to her home town. At first physics was not as interesting as she had expected, and she was more attracted to mathematics [2]:-
When I first entered Arhus University I was bored by physics. They just taught us thermodynamics and classical mechanics, and that bored me. But I loved mathematics. I would rather do mathematics than go to the movies in
Researchers now able to stop, restart light
“Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour; now we’ve been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed.” Lene Hau isn’t talking about a used motorbike, but about light that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight minutes.
Less than five years ago, the speed of light was considered one of the universe’s great constants. Albert Einstein theorized that light cannot travel faster than , miles per second. No one has proved him wrong, but he never said that it couldn’t go slower.
Hau, 41, a professor of physics at Harvard, admits that the famous genius would “probably be stunned” at the results of her experiments. Working at the Rowland Institute for Science, overlooking the Charles River and the gold dome of the state Capitol in Boston, she and her colleagues slowed light 20 million-fold in , to an incredible 38 miles an hour. They did it by passing a beam of light through a small cloud of atoms cooled to temperatures a billion times colder than those in the spaces between stars. The atom cloud was suspended magnetically in a chamber pumped down to a va
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