Bloembergen, Nicolaas

There are many people whom I admire enormously. I ve already mentioned Richard Ernst. Then there is Nicolaas Bloembergen, born in The Netherlands. This man is also phenomenal. Not only did he get the Nobel Prize for nonlinear optics, but as a graduate student he also developed NMR relaxation theory, pretty much from scratch. Considering how little was known at... 

Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, 1927 Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson... 

Improvements in laser spectroscopy (Arthur D. Schawlow and Nicolaas Bloembergen) Schawlow shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen for their work on laser spectroscopy. While most of Schawlow s inventions involved lasers, he also did research in superconductivity and nuclear resonance. 

About 1950, Hahn s work with appropriately spaced pulses of radiofrequency radiation and a 1948 report by Nicolaas Bloembergen, Purcell, and R. V. Pound set the stage for the study of relaxation processes in NMR and for investigation of dynamic structure of liquids. 

It is very much appreciated that all the 1981 Nobel laureates, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn, were able to attend and deliver their invited talks. Professor Schawlow summed up the conference and this too is presented here. The conference also benefited considerably from the presence of Professor I.l. Rabi, who gave a much appreciated talk at the conference dinner. As this talk was given without a manuscript, it could unfortunately not be included here. 

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