Lene Vestergaard Hau
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Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist best known for her pioneering work in slowing and stopping light in ultracold atomic gases.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lene Vestergaard Hau canonical | 12 |
| Lene Hau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T353521 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lene Vestergaard Hau Context triple: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Lene Vestergaard Hau]
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A.
Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, political scientist, and prominent internationalist who shared the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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B.
Fredrik Meltzer
Fredrik Meltzer was a Norwegian politician and merchant best known for creating the design of Norway’s national flag in the early 19th century.
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C.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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D.
Jan Christian Vestre
Jan Christian Vestre is a Norwegian Labour Party politician and businessman who has served as Norway’s Minister of Trade and Industry.
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E.
Verena Huber-Dyson
Verena Huber-Dyson was a Swiss-American mathematician known for her work in group theory and logic, and for her contributions to the philosophy of mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lene Vestergaard Hau Target entity description: Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist best known for her pioneering work in slowing and stopping light in ultracold atomic gases.
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A.
Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, political scientist, and prominent internationalist who shared the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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B.
Fredrik Meltzer
Fredrik Meltzer was a Norwegian politician and merchant best known for creating the design of Norway’s national flag in the early 19th century.
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C.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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D.
Jan Christian Vestre
Jan Christian Vestre is a Norwegian Labour Party politician and businessman who has served as Norway’s Minister of Trade and Industry.
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E.
Verena Huber-Dyson
Verena Huber-Dyson was a Swiss-American mathematician known for her work in group theory and logic, and for her contributions to the philosophy of mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish person
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academic ⓘ experimental physicist ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in physics ⓘ |
| almaMater | Aarhus University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
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Danish Order of the Dannebrog ⓘ
linked to:
Order of the Dannebrog
Harvard Ledlie Prize ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ Ole Rømer Medal ⓘ Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters membership ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-11-13 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Poul Martin Bendix ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Hau ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Bose–Einstein condensates
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linked to:
Bose–Einstein condensate
atomic physics ⓘ nonlinear optics ⓘ physics ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Lene
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linked to:
Lena
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| influencedBy | developments in Bose–Einstein condensation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
electromagnetically induced transparency experiments
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slowing light in ultracold atomic gases ⓘ stopping light in a Bose–Einstein condensate ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Danish
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English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Physical Society ⓘ Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ⓘ |
| name | Lene Vestergaard Hau ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first to bring light pulses to a complete stop and later retrieve them
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first to slow light to walking speed in a laboratory ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1999 Nature paper on light slowed to 17 meters per second
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2001 work on stopping and storing light pulses in a Bose–Einstein condensate ⓘ |
| occupation |
research scientist
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Vejle, Denmark
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linked to:
Vejle
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| positionHeld | Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
control of light propagation in ultracold atomic media
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quantum information storage in atomic ensembles ⓘ |
| workplace |
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Harvard University Department of Physics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Lene Vestergaard Hau Description of subject: Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist best known for her pioneering work in slowing and stopping light in ultracold atomic gases.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University
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holder
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Lene Vestergaard Hau
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linked to: Lene Vestergaard Hau