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Roy J. Glauber

1925 - 2018

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Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy J. Glauber has received more than 313,493 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Roy J. Glauber is the 225th most popular physicist (down from 205th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from United States (up from 941st in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Physicist.

Roy J. Glauber is most famous for his work in quantum optics, where he developed the theory of quantum noise and coherence.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Roy J. Glauber ranks 225 out of 851. Before him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, John Clauser, Murray Gell-Mann, and Sheldon Lee Glashow. After him are Frederick Reines, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Theodor W. Hänsch, Edme Mariotte, Makoto Kobayashi, and Burton Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Roy J. Glauber ranks 54. Before him are Andrea Camilleri, Luciano Berio, Wong Fei-hung, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Robert Venturi, and Juan Alberto Schiaffino. After him are Rod Steiger, Barbara Bush, Milton Obote, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bülent Ecevit, and Alain Touraine. Among people deceased in 2018, Roy J. Glauber ranks 39. Before him are Charles K. Kao, Francis Lai, V. S. Naipaul, Gudrun Burwitz, Jin Yong, and Jamal Khashoggi. After him are Reynaldo Bignone, Burton Richter, Barbara Bush, Günter Blobel, Leon M. Lederman, and Bernard Lewis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 907 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmy Connors (1952), Asaph Hall (1829), John B. Calhoun (1917), Richard Rorty (1931), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), and Daniel Keyes (1927). After him are Lewis Strauss (1896), John Lee Hooker (1917), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Frederick Reines (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), and Jill Biden (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 48. Before him are Clifford Shull (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), John L. Hall (1934), John Clauser (1942), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), and Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932). After him are Frederick Reines (1918), Burton Richter (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), and Philip Warren Anderson (1923).

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