1920 - 2017
Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973 (as Lorentz Professor). Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn because their work "has had a profound effect on our present knowledge of the constitution of matter" through the use of laser spectroscopy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolaas Bloembergen has received more than 258,159 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolaas Bloembergen is the 155th most popular physicist (up from 195th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 109th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Physicist.
Nicolaas Bloembergen is most famous for his work in the field of optics, specifically the development of the laser.
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Among physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 155 out of 717. Before him are Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, Rudolf Mössbauer, Hans Geiger, Peter Grünberg, and Val Logsdon Fitch. After him are Hugh Everett III, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Willard Boyle, Murray Gell-Mann, and Steven Weinberg.
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 149
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 150
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 151
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 152
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 153
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 154
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 155
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 156
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 157
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 158
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 160
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 161
Among people born in 1920, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 32. Before him are Walter Matthau, Helmut Newton, John Demjanjuk, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ravi Shankar, and Douglass North. After him are François Jacob, Clarice Lispector, Gene Tierney, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Mickey Rooney, and Fritz Walter. Among people deceased in 2017, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 28. Before him are Jerry Lewis, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Martin Landau, Mário Soares, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and George A. Romero. After him are Tzvetan Todorov, Kenneth Arrow, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Roman Herzog, Liu Xiaobo, and Emmanuelle Riva.
1920 - 2000
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 26
1920 - 2004
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 27
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 28
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 29
1920 - 2012
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 30
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 31
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 32
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 33
1920 - 1977
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 34
1920 - 1991
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 35
1920 - 2016
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 36
1920 - 2014
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 37
1920 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 38
1926 - 2017
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 22
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 23
1928 - 2017
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 24
1924 - 2017
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 25
1921 - 2017
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 26
1940 - 2017
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 27
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 28
1939 - 2017
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 29
1921 - 2017
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 30
1934 - 2017
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 31
1934 - 2017
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 32
1955 - 2017
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 33
1927 - 2017
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 34
Among people born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 81 out of 1,427. Before him are Carel Fabritius (1622), Jan Oort (1900), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Sophia of Hanover (1630), Cornelius Jansen (1585), and Bernard Mandeville (1670). After him are Bernard Haitink (1929), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562), Geert Hofstede (1928), Judith Leyster (1609), Lucas van Leyden (1494), and Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930).
1622 - 1654
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 75
1900 - 1992
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 76
1592 - 1656
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 77
1630 - 1714
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 78
1585 - 1638
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 79
1670 - 1733
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 80
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 81
1929 - 2021
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 82
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 83
1928 - 2020
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 84
1609 - 1660
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 85
1494 - 1533
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 86
1930 - 2002
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 87
Among physicists born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 9. Before him are Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), and Frits Zernike (1888). After him are Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Simon van der Meer (1925), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Hans Kramers (1894), and Hendrik Casimir (1909).
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 3
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 4
1837 - 1923
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 5
1853 - 1926
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 6
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 7
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 8
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 9
1931 - 2021
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 10
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 11
1730 - 1799
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 12
1946 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 13
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 14
1909 - 2000
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 15