Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Physicist, Academic
1921 – 1999
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Who was Arthur Leonard Schawlow?
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn.
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- To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.
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- Born
- May 5, 1921
Mount Vernon - Also known as
- Arthur Schawlow
- A.L. Schawlow
- Art Schawlow
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto
( - 1941) - Doctorate, University of Toronto
( - 1949) - Master of Arts, University of Toronto
( - 1942) - Vaughan Road Academy
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto
- Employment
- Research Physicist, Bell Labs
(1951 - 1961) - Professor, Stanford University
(1961 - 1996)
- Research Physicist, Bell Labs
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Apr 28, 1999
Palo Alto
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on July 23, 2013
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