Lorenzo Narducci

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Lorenzo M. Narducci (born May 25, 1942 in Turin , † July 21, 2006 in Havertown , Pennsylvania ) was an Italian - American physicist who studied quantum optics .

Narducci studied at the University of Milan with his doctorate in 1964. He was then assistant professor for quantum electronics there. In 1966 he went to the USA as an assistant professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and from 1976 as an associate professor and from 1988 professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia . He died of kidney cancer.

In 1999 he received the Willis E. Lamb Prize for his contributions in the field of quantum fluctuations and quantum noise and especially the application of the quantum regression theorem (by Melvin Lax ) in quantum optics. In 1991 he received the Einstein Prize for Laser Research . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was a member of the Franklin Institute.

Since 1987 he was editor of Optics Communications and since 1990 co-editor of Physical Review A . He was also on the editorial board of Progress on Optics .

Fonts

  • with Neal B. Abraham Laser physics and Laser Instabilities , World Scientific 1988
  • Editor with Michael G. Raymer, Robert W. Boyd Optical Instabilities. Cambridge University Press 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Lamb Medal for Lamb