Professor Gérard Mourou ---Nobel Prize For Physics,2018

Samarate (VA) January 11, 2019 - Quanta System (El.En) has hosted the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics, Professor Gérard Mourou. An honor, but also a great recognition for Quanta and the El.En Group for their contribution to science and medicine, all over the world.

Alongside Mourou, who became Nobel Laureate for his discovery of the CPA (Chirped Pulse Amplification), and who has been also the inventor of the surgical Lasik intervention for miopia through the laser, they were present the general manager of Quanta System, Eng. Girolamo Lionetti, and the general manager of El.En., Eng. Paolo Salvadeo, the Consul General of France in Italy, His Excellence doctor Cyrille Rogeau, Professor Orazio Svelto (the father of the laser in Italy), the world famous journalist Beppe Severgnini, Professor Ursula Keller, scientist of the Zurich ETH, inventor of the SESAM (Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror), the Swiss scientist Kurt Weingarten, the Honourable of the Chamber of Deputees Leonardo Tarantino, the Mayor of Samarate, the Mayor of Varese, with the chiefs of the local Police and Carabinieri stations, together with all the personnel of Quanta, a huge delegation of El.En., DEKA, Otlas, and the local, national and international media.

Before his visit to Quanta System, the Nobel Prize, together with a group of company executives, could enjoy a special visit to the ‘’wooden axes room’’ (Sala delle Asse) in the Sforza Castle of Milan, where Leonardo da Vinci’s frescos are being taken to new light thanks to the use of both Quanta and El.En restoration lasers. 

Paolo Salvadeo, general manager of El.En., commented: ‘’after Albert Einstein, Pierre and Marie Curie, Guglielmo Marconi, Röentgen, Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè, Carlo Rubbia, Bohr, and Peter Higgs, just to mention a few past Nobel Prize laurates in Physics, Professor Moureau has left an indelible sign in the history of mandkind, and will forever be remembered for his contribution to the progress of humanity.

Another reason to be so proud and happy to host him here today.

As many of other companies, we started in a kind of garage and ... on today we have here a Nobel Prize. The story of an all-Italian miracle’’. 

                                                      ---Excerpted from Facebook of Cutlite Penta Srl