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Lene Vestergaard Hau

was born 65 years ago

13 November 1959

Lene Hau is a Danish physicist and mathematician. She has led a team at Harvard University who have slowed light and in 2001 succeeded in stopping a beam of light. This has important applications to quantum computing.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hau/