Richard George Brewer
Richard George Brewer , called Dick Brewer, (born December 8, 1928 in Los Angeles , California - † July 22, 2012 ) was an American physicist who studied quantum optics , atomic physics and laser spectroscopy .
Brewer graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and, after a break from military service, received his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1958 with Leo Brewer (to whom he was not related). As a post-graduate student , he was an instructor at Harvard University from 1958 to 1960 . In 1960 he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , and from 1963 he did research at IBM (at the Almaden Research Center in Palo Alto). In 1973 he became an IBM Fellow . In 1994 he retired from IBM. In 1977 he also became a consulting professorin Applied Physics from Stanford University ; in the same year he was adjunct professor at the Italian National Optics Institute in Florence .
He was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (1975), at the University of California, Santa Cruz , and at MIT (1968/69). He worked with Edward Teller and Erwin Hahn at Berkeley and with Charles H. Townes and Ali Javan at MIT.
In the early 1960s, Brewer used the rubidium laser that had just been developed at IBM to detect stimulated Brillouin scattering in liquids. During his stay with Ali Javan at MIT, laser spectroscopy developed techniques using the Stark effect , which he used to generate a Lamb dip and which he later applied many times, for example in photon echo experiments (which also include Rabi nutation and free optical induction decay observed).
In 1979 he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal and in 2000 the Charles H. Townes Silver Medal. In 1994 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America, and the National Academy of Sciences (1980). With Aram Mooradian he initiated the International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (from 1973).
From 1977 to 1980 he was co-editor of Optics Letters and 1980 to 1983 of the Journal of the Optical Society of America.
Brewer had been married since 1954 and had a son and two daughters.
Fonts
- Coherent optical transients . In: Physics Today . tape 30 , no. 5 , 1977, pp. 50-59 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3037546 .
- with AZ Genack: Optical Coherent Transients by Laser Frequency Switching . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 36 , no. 16 , April 19, 1976, pp. 959-962 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.36.959 .
- Coherent optical spectroscopy . In: R. Balian, S. Haroche, S. Lieberman (Eds.): Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy . tape 1 . North Holland, 1977, p. 343-396 .
Web links
- Richard G. Brewer. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Paul Berman, Erwin Hahn: Obituary of Richard Brewer (1928-2012) . In: Physics Today . December 2012, doi : 10.1063 / PT.4.1761 ( scitation.org ).
- Homepage. Stanford University, archived from the original on July 29, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data based on American Men and Woman of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Represented in Demtröder Laserspektoskopie , Springer Verlag 1993, Chapters 12.3, 12.4. Analogous to older experiments on spin echo .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brewer, Richard George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brewer, Dick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 2012 |