Peter Sorokin
Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin (born July 10, 1931 in Boston - † September 24, 2015 ) was an American physicist who worked on laser physics.
Sorokin studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1953), where he received his doctorate in applied physics in 1958. From 1957 he was a physicist at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM , where he was an IBM Fellow since 1968 .
Together with Fritz Peter Schäfer from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, he is considered the inventor of the dye laser (1966). Sorokin published in front of Schäfer, but as a referee made sure that Schäfer's work, which was initially rejected for this reason, could still be published in Applied Physics Letters (Schäfer was the first to recognize an important aspect of dye lasers - their tunability).
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1976 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1977 , also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America .
Later he dealt with lasers in the far UV and femtosecond pulse lasers in the UV.
He has been married since 1977 and has two children.
Awards
- 1974: Albert A. Michelson Medal
- 1978: RW Wood Prize
- 1983: Comstock Prize for Physics
- 1984: Harvey Prize
- 1991: Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to Pamela Kalte u. a .: American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Peter P. Sorokin, 84, physicist ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sorokin, JR Lankard: Stimulated Emission Observed from an Organic Dye, Chloro-aluminum Phthalocyanine , IBM J. Res. Devel., Volume 10, 1966, pp. 162-163. A pulsed ruby laser was used as the pump laser.
- ↑ PP Sorokin, JR Lankard, VL Moruzzi, EC Hammond: Flashlamp-pumped Organic Dye Lasers , J. Phys Chem, Vol 48, 1968, p 4726th.
- ^ First dye laser, Deutsches Museum, pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sorokin, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sorokin, Peter P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2015 |