John Lewis Hall

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John L. Hall
George W. Bush meets five 2005 Nobel Prize winners. John L. Hall is on the far left.

John Lewis Hall ( "Jan" Hall; born August 21, 1934 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder . He deals with laser spectroscopy and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005 .

Hall studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , where he did his Bachelor of Science in 1956, his Masters in 1958, and finally his doctorate in physics in 1961. He went to the University of Colorado and NIST in Boulder in 1964 . In 1973 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Hall has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1984 .

He developed a process for the frequency stabilization of dye lasers ( Pound-Drever-Hall process ) and a method for measuring the wavelength of lasers (lambdameter).

In 2005, Hall received the Nobel Prize for Physics together with Roy J. Glauber and Theodor Hänsch , with Hall and Hänsch each receiving a quarter and Glauber half of the prize. In 1984 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award , he received the Einstein Prize for Laser Research , Davisson-Germer Prize , the Samuel W. Stratton Award, EU Condon Award, the Frederic Ives Medal and the Max Born Award . He is an honorary doctor of the Universities of Paris-Nord and Glasgow and a member of the Legion of Honor.

Fonts

  • with KM Evenson, RL Barger, JS Wells, GW Day, FR Petersen, BL Davidson: The speed of light from direct frequency and wavelength measurements of the methane-stabilized laser, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 29, 1972, p. 1346
  • with SA Lee: Interferometric real time display of CW dye laser wavelength with sub-Doppler accuracy, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 29, 1976, p. 367
  • with JJ Snyder, T. Baer, ​​L. Hollweg: Lambda meter resolution enhancement using a novel frequency meter, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Washington DC 1981

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RL Barger, MS Sorem, JL Hall: Frequency stabilization of a cw dye laser, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 22, 1973, pp. 573-575
personal data
SURNAME Hall, John Lewis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Jan (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado