Herbert Pointer
Herbert J. Zeiger (born March 16, 1925 in the Bronx , New York City , † January 14, 2011 ) was an American physicist who was the co-developer of the first maser .
Zeiger attended City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1944 and Columbia University with a master's degree in 1948 and a doctorate in 1952. From 1953 until his retirement in 1990, he conducted research at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Most recently he lived in Newton (Massachusetts) and then in Dedham (Massachusetts) . He is buried in West Roxbury.
In addition to the physics of maser and laser , he dealt with solid-state physics, semiconductor physics and molecular physics.
In 1953/54 he developed the first maser at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes and James P. Gordon , who was then Townes’s doctoral student.
In 1981 he received the first Charles Hard Townes Award with Gordon . In 1966 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
He was married to Hanna Bloom and had three children.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Obituary in the Boston Globe
- ↑ JP Gordon, HJ Zeiger, CH Townes, Phys. Rev. 95, 282 (1954)
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| SURNAME | Pointer, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pointer, Herbert Jack; Pointer, Herbert J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2011 |