Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy.[1] During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973 (as Lorentz Professor).
Nicolaas Bloembergen | |
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Born | (1920-03-11)March 11, 1920 |
Died | September 5, 2017(2017-09-05) (aged 97) |
Citizenship | Netherlands United States |
Alma mater | Leiden University Utrecht University |
Known for | Laser spectroscopy Non-linear optics Motional narrowing Photon upconversion Atomic line filter Second-harmonic generation BPP theory |
Spouse |
Huberta Deliana Brink
(m. 1950) |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied physics |
Institutions | University of Arizona Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Cornelis Jacobus Gorter |
Other academic advisors | Edward Purcell |
Doctoral students | Peter Pershan Yuen-Ron Shen Eli Yablonovitch |
Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn because their work "has had a profound effect on our present knowledge of the constitution of matter" through the use of laser spectroscopy. In particular, Bloembergen was singled out because he "founded a new field of science we now call non-linear optics" by mixing "two or more beams of laser light... in order to produce laser light of a different wave length" and thus significantly broaden the laser spectroscopy frequency band.[2]