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Laser Pioneer Capasso Wins ‘Future Prize’

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Cambridge, Mass., July 8, 2010 — Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (the future prize), an international award for excellent research on the application or generation of laser light. The prize, consisting of €30,000 ($38,000), will be presented during ceremony held in Ditingen, Germany on July 9, 2010. As part of the celebrations Professor Theodor W. Hänsch, co-winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize...Read full article

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    Published: July 2010
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