The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-19
"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Born: 1920-03-11 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Gender: male
Field: Dutch-born American physicist
Biography
Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.