http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/03/18/qa_with_lene_hau
Originally appeared in the Boston Globe
By Harvey Blume
As the Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau, a tenured
professor at Harvard, explained to me how she slows light down -- and, when
it's going at a "comfortable bicycling speed," does something to it
that's weird even by the standards of quantum mechanics -- I couldn't resist
blurting out the suspicion I'd harbored since reading about her work:
"You're going to win a Nobel Prize if you're not careful." Hau, one
of nine MacArthur Fellows picked by the MacArthur Foundation in 2005 to
represent the history of its "genius" awards, just laughed and went
back to energetically explaining the apparatus she had built to experiment with
light.
