Word: hau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lene Verstergaard Hau, the Danish physicist who announced last February that she had slowed down light, has been appointed to a tenured post in Harvard's physics department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS...
...Hau, who in September became McKay professor of applied physics, reported with two other researchers in the science journal Nature that they had slowed light to 17 meters per second...
...Hau, who is one of four experimental physicists added to the Faculty in the last year, says she hopes to slow light to a centimeter per second within a month...
...Hau said her process will be useful in building highly sensitive optical switches--switches that can be thrown by a single photon...
...somehow find a way to make this system more practical--it's not yet the sort of thing you can fit in a knapsack--it would have fantastic applications," Hau said...