Nicolaas Bloembergen

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Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920 in Dordrecht , Netherlands ; † September 5, 2017 in Tucson , Arizona ) was a Dutch -American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in physics .

Career

Nicolaas Bloembergen initially studied at the University of Utrecht , but had to break off his studies after the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, as the university was closed by the occupiers. In 1946 he moved to the USA to join Edward Purcell at Harvard University , where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the physical principles of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He then taught at Harvard University until 1990, first as an assistant (and from 1949 to 1951 as a junior fellow), from 1951 as an associate professor and from 1957 as a professor. He received his doctorate in 1948 during a temporary return to the University of Leiden . From 1990 he was Professor Emeritus at Harvard and from 2001 Professor at the University of Arizona . In 1957 he was a Guggenheim Fellow visiting professor at the École normal supérieure , 1965 at the University of California, Berkeley , 1973 as Lorentz Professor in Leiden, 1980 at the Collège de France , 1979 Raman Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), 1984 at California Institute of Technology and 1980 and 1987 as Senior Von Humboldt Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching .

He was a pioneer in the fields of nuclear magnetic resonance, nonlinear optics and laser technologies.

Honors

In 1981 Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy ”.

In 1991 he was President of the American Physical Society . In 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , since 1960 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1958 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and in 1974 the National Medal of Science . Since 1982 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society and since 1983 of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

In 2001 the asteroid (10447) Bloembergen was named after him. Nicolaas Bloembergen had been a US citizen since 1958 and died in September 2017 at the age of 97 where he lived in Tucson, Arizona.

Fonts

  • Nonlinear Optics (Lecturenote and Reprint Volume), Benjamin 1965, 1977
  • Topics in nonlinear optics - Selected papers of N. Bloembergen. Bangalore, Indian Academy of Sciences 1982
  • Nonlinear Optics. 4th edition, World Scientific 1996
  • Encounters in nonlinear optics. Selected papers of N. Bloembergen with commentary. World Scientific 1996
  • Nuclear magnetic relaxation. The Hague 1948

literature

Web links

Commons : Nicolaas Bloembergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Nicolaas Bloembergen. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 6, 2018 (English, with short biography).
  2. ↑ Member entry by Nicolaas Bloembergen (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 43044
  4. ↑ Margriet van der Heijden: Nico Bloembergen (1920-2017): briljant met licht en lasers. In: NRC Handelsblad . September 6, 2017, accessed September 7, 2017 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Bloembergen, Nicolaas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht , the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 2017
Place of death Tucson , Arizona