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Nicolaas Bloembergen

1920 - 2017

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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 267,361 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Nicolaas Bloembergen is the 159th most popular physicist (down from 155th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 81st in 2019) and the 11th 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

Among physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 159 out of 851. Before him are Hans Geiger, Maurice Wilkins, Arthur Compton, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Hugh Everett III, and Henry Moseley. After him are Klaus Fuchs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Louis Néel, Yang Chen-Ning, Kai Siegbahn, and Zhores Alferov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 26. Before him are Éric Rohmer, Richard von Weizsäcker, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Helmut Newton. After him are Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, François Jacob, Zecharia Sitchin, Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, and Montgomery Clift. Among people deceased in 2017, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 27. Before him are Hugh Hefner, Manuel Noriega, Johnny Hallyday, Slobodan Praljak, Simone Veil, and Glen Campbell. After him are Mário Soares, Martin Landau, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Roman Herzog, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, and Hiroto Muraoka.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 68 out of 1,646. Before him are Pieter de Hooch (1629), Simon van der Meer (1925), Johan de Witt (1625), Gerrit Rietveld (1888), Ronald Koeman (1963), and Jacob Roggeveen (1659). After him are William V, Prince of Orange (1748), Dieric Bouts (1415), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836), Rob Rensenbrink (1947), Dries van Agt (1931), and Dick Advocaat (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Nicolaas Bloembergen ranks 11. Before him are Pieter Zeeman (1865), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), and Simon van der Meer (1925). After him are Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), and Hendrik Casimir (1909).

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