Historical place archive

Cambridge Massachusetts in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Cambridge Massachusetts in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records4 event labels1 people1999–2001

Historical events in Cambridge Massachusetts

1999

1999
Light Reduced to Bicycle Speed
Lene Vestergaard Hau · Physics

Reduces a light pulse to speeds comparable with ordinary transport.

1999
Slow Light Experiment
Lene Vestergaard Hau · Physics

Leads an experiment slowing light dramatically in an ultracold atomic gas.

2001

2001
Stopped Light
Lene Vestergaard Hau · Physics

Stops a light pulse temporarily inside an atomic medium.

2001
Stored Optical Information
Lene Vestergaard Hau · Physics

Stores and later retrieves optical information using coherent atomic states.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Denmark and Cambridge Massachusetts. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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