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...Lene Hau, McKay professor of applied physics and professor of physics, received a MacArthur Fellowship yesterday for her work on manipulating light. The “genius grant” entitles her to receive $500,000 over a period of five years, which she can spend as she pleases...
...Lene V. Hau, McKay professor of applied physics, briefly explained her work in slowing light from its standard speed to 38 miles per hour...
...Hau said she also has been able to “stop a light pulse target and revive it controllably...
...rent." In the end, Wong and his star opted for the commercial, and it was Zhang Ziyi who ended up atop the tiled rooftops, on horseback in China's western desert and at the Oscar ceremony in March. Sitting in his office in Hong Kong's Tin Hau district, Wong now says: "I have no regrets." After a pause, he adds: "Ang Lee should have been most disappointed. You watch Zhang Ziyi in the film, and she's following Ang's directions to the letter. Shu Qi would have added a different layer. Her personality would have made far more...
...then releasing it at will as if it were an ordinary particle - has apparently been pulled off by two independent teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters; Hau's in the journal Nature, sometime soon...