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My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.

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Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn’t have been thinking about lasers.

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I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.

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April 25, 2024

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.

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April 25, 2024

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn’t have been thinking about lasers.

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