Lene Vestergaard Hau was born on 13 November 1959 in Denmark. She was born to parents of white ethnicity and Danish nationality. She did her schooling in Denmark and later moved to the USA for higher studies. She was a very brilliant student since childhood. She often scored the highest numbers in class and proved to be a very brilliant student in different competitions as well.
She did her master's degree from the University of Aarhus which is in Denmark. She continued studying there and got a doctorate degree from the same university in 1991. She also researched at CERN which is the biggest and one of the highest regarded laboratories in the world. After getting her doctorate degree she moved to the Rowland Institute of Science which is at Massachusetts, USA. With her great wisdom, she set out to find different properties of light.
In her Harvard days, she along with her associates were able to slow down the light and also she was able to make it to a complete stop in its path. The slow light, however, could survive much time but the experiment was successful since no one has ever done that with a light particle. When she came into the 21st century the technology had evolved to a point where she could change the state of light from light to matter.
In 2006 she did an experiment in which she was successful in changing a light particle to matter wave and again to a light particle. As the great scientist Albert Einstein had suggested that light is an energy and it could be changed into the matter at will but this count be done until Lene decided to do it herself and was successful. This experiment was never done before in a combined state and so the experiment was a huge success for us as human beings.
She has also done some other experiments such as the one that she did in 2009 in which she captured an atom and separate the electron from it by laser. She has been awarded many awards for her great work.
In 2001 she was made the Honorary Alum of the Aarhus University. She has also been given the fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in the year 2010. The same year she got an award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Apart from doing researches and getting awards she is also a very good writer as evident by her books which are followed as course materials in man universities around the world.
She is a married woman although not much is known about her personal life. She likes to keep it to herself and don't are much in the media. She is also not very active on social media as she thinks it is a waste of time and she prioritizes her time to do more work in science. Her net worth is estimated to be around $50 million.
