Professor Arthur Schawlow

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Physicist Arthur Schawlow graduated from high school in 1937. He taught military courses, and subsequently worked on microwave antennae. He entered the graduate school of the University of Toronto, Canada, after the second world war, and in 1949 went to Columbia University in New York, NY, where he collaborated with Charles Townes. He investigated solid-state materials at Bell, and in 1961 joined the physics faculty at Stanford University in California. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing laser spectroscopy.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Population information, Physicists, Schawlow, Arthur Leonard

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Professor Raymond Andrew

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Physicist Raymond Andrew was born in Boston, England, in 1921. He studied Physics at Christ's College, Cambridge, England, and then worked as a Scientific Officer at the Royal Radar Establishment. He became very influential in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance.

Andrew, Edward Raymond

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Professor Nikolai Basov

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Physicist Nikolai Basov was born in Usman, Soviet Union, in 1922. He studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physical Engineers and later headed the influential P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.

Basov, Nikolai

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