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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science. His central insight was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with ...
May 1, 2024 · maser. Arthur L. Schawlow (born May 5, 1921, Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.—died April 28, 1999, Palo Alto, California) was an American physicist and corecipient, with Nicolaas Bloembergen of the United States and Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn of Sweden, of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in developing the laser and in laser spectroscopy.
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Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Arthur Leonard Schawlow. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981. Born: 5 May 1921, Mount Vernon, NY, USA. Died: 28 April 1999, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”.
May 1, 2011 · Patricia Daukantas. Arthur L. Schawlow was truly a one-of-a-kind scientist and human being. Known for his gentle spirit, his sense of humor and his scientific creativity, he was the only Nobel Prize winner to have served as an OSA president. OPN examines his life and legacy on the 90th anniversary of his birth.
Apr 28, 1999 · Born May 5, 1921 - Died April 28, 1999. Arthur L. Schawlow was co-inventor of the laser. He worked with Charles H. Townes, who was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1976. Schawlow was also a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics. Schawlow was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and went on to attend the University of Toronto ...
Arthur Leonard Schawlow. 1921-. American physicist whose early collaborations with Charles Townes on masers resulted in their 1955 Microwave Spectroscopy. They extended maser principles to light in 1958 when they published the first detailed proposal for building a laser. Schawlow won a share of the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics for developments ...
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Apr 29, 1999 · Nobel laureate Arthur Schawlow, the co-inventor of the laser, died Wednesday morning after a long illness. He was 77. Schawlow, who was a researcher at Stanford University for much of his career, earned the nickname Laser Man for his many public demonstrations of lasers. Once called "a technology in search of an application," lasers are now ...
