Schawlow, Arthur

I talked with one or two of my students about it. Also, I was consulting at that time with Bell Laboratories, and I had a very good, very happy consulting job. Bell Labs said, just come here one day every two weeks and talk with people here, you know, talk with them about what they re doing. We just want you to interact. That was a good idea from Bell Labs point of view, I guess, and it was a happy idea for me. So my brother-in-law Arthur Schawlow was there at the time and I went around and talked with him, of course - I got paid for talking with my brother-in-law about science - wow And I told him about this optical maser idea that I d had. He said, well, you... 

Theodor W. Hansch, Arthur L. Schawlow, and George W Series... 

Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow invent the MASER (microwave... 

At Toronto he studied maths and physics, not being allowed into the chemistry department due to his nationality, as war work was in progress there. Among his fellow students was Arthur Schawlow who later shared a Nobel Prize for the development of lasers. 

In 1960, the construction of the functional laser by American physicist and Nobel laureate Arthur Schawlow began the next phase in the development of semiconductor electronics, as the assembly of transistors on silicon substrates was still a tedious endeavor that greatly limited the size of transistor structures that could be constructed. As lasers became more powerful and more easily controlled, they were applied to the task of surface etching, an advance that has produced ever smaller transistor structures. This development has required ever more refined methods of producing silicon crystals from which thin wafers can be cut for the production of silicon semiconductor chips, the primary effort of electronic materials production (though by no means the most important). 

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. 

Yen, W. M., Marc D. Levenson, and Arthur L. Schawlow. Lasers, Spectroscopy, and New Ideas A Tribute to Arthur L. Schawlow. New York Springer-Verlag, 1987. 

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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