
Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch–American physicist 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 (as Lorentz Professor). 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 pr
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'We never knew how important he was' - Nobel laureate, Lexingtonian Nicolaas Bloembergen dies
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Nicolaas Bloembergen, Who Shared Nobel for Advances With Laser Light, Dies at 97 (Published 2017)