Bloembergen, Nicolaas (nē`kəläs bl
m`bĕrgən, –bûrgən), 1920–, American physicist, b. Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Educated in the Netherlands, he began work at Harvard in 1946, first as a researcher and later as a professor. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje, 1918–, Swedish physicist, son of Karl Siegbahn. He earned his doctorate at the Univ. of Stockholm in 1944. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for their work in spectroscopy.
..... Click the link for more information. for their work in laser spectroscopy. Bloembergen and Schawlow investigated matter undetectable without lasers. He had earlier modified the maser of Charles Townes.
Bloembergen, Nicolaas (1920– ) physicist; born in Dordrecht, Netherlands. After completing his university education at the State University of Leiden in his homeland, he came to the United States in 1946 to take up a post as a research assistant at Harvard. He returned to the State University of Leiden to take his Ph.D. (1947–48) but then came back to Harvard as a junior fellow, joining the faculty in 1951 and becoming the Gordon McKay professor of applied physics in 1951, then the Rumford Professor in 1974, and finally the Gerhard Gade University Professor in 1980. He received numerous honors for his work, including the National Medal of Science (1974). He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics with the American Arthur Schawlow and the Swedish professor Kai Siegbahn. Bloembergen and Schawlow were cited for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy; Bloembergen's work in the field of nonlinear optics was especially crucial in explaining and then averting the problems in producing high intensity laser beams.
m`bĕrgən, –bûrgən), 1920–, American physicist, b. Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Educated in the Netherlands, he began work at Harvard in 1946, first as a researcher and later as a professor. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje, 1918–, Swedish physicist, son of Karl Siegbahn. He earned his doctorate at the Univ. of Stockholm in 1944. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for their work in spectroscopy...... Click the link for more information. for their work in laser spectroscopy. Bloembergen and Schawlow investigated matter undetectable without lasers. He had earlier modified the maser of Charles Townes.
Bloembergen, Nicolaas (1920– ) physicist; born in Dordrecht, Netherlands. After completing his university education at the State University of Leiden in his homeland, he came to the United States in 1946 to take up a post as a research assistant at Harvard. He returned to the State University of Leiden to take his Ph.D. (1947–48) but then came back to Harvard as a junior fellow, joining the faculty in 1951 and becoming the Gordon McKay professor of applied physics in 1951, then the Rumford Professor in 1974, and finally the Gerhard Gade University Professor in 1980. He received numerous honors for his work, including the National Medal of Science (1974). He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics with the American Arthur Schawlow and the Swedish professor Kai Siegbahn. Bloembergen and Schawlow were cited for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy; Bloembergen's work in the field of nonlinear optics was especially crucial in explaining and then averting the problems in producing high intensity laser beams.
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