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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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A bit like how people from New Jersey got used to being made fun of because they lived on industrial land that was less beautiful than New York. To prove his point, he picked up a coffee mug with an intersecting L and H — the new emblem of Le Havre that adorns products — like T-shirts and tote bags — sold throughout the city.

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Remembering IEEE Spectrum Columnist Bob Lucky

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A MEMORABLE CAREER Lucky received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., in EE from the university in 1961, he joined Bell Labs as a communications engineer. He retired in 2002. A LASTING LEGACY Lucky was an invited lecturer at nearly 100 universities.

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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But she didn’t know what subject she wanted to pursue until she began her undergraduate studies in physics at McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., While conducting research in optics for her doctorate at the University of Rochester , in New York, Strickland worked with French physicist Gérard Mourou , a laser pioneer and Nobel laureate.

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