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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 292,920 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Roy J. Glauber is the 205th most popular physicist (down from 186th in 2019), the 941st most popular biography from United States (down from 846th in 2019) and the 41st 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 205 out of 717Before him are Nikolay Basov, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, David Lee, Joseph Rotblat, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and Armen Sarkissian. After him are Kai Siegbahn, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Herbert Kroemer, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Simon van der Meer, and Jerome Isaac Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Roy J. Glauber ranks 52Before him are Luciano Berio, Gerald Durrell, Robert Venturi, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Jacques Delors, and George Kennedy. After him are Barbara Bush, Simon van der Meer, Bülent Ecevit, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jean Tinguely, and Ieng Sary. Among people deceased in 2018, Roy J. Glauber ranks 36Before him are Richard E. Taylor, Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Robert Venturi, Francis Lai, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are Bernard Lewis, V. S. Naipaul, Gudrun Burwitz, Barbara Bush, R. Lee Ermey, and Riccardo Giacconi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 941 out of 18,182Before him are Ambrose Bierce (1842), Louise Fletcher (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), George Jung (1942), Forest Whitaker (1961), and Albert Pike (1809). After him are Pat Garrett (1850), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stan Getz (1927), Laura Bush (1946), C. Wright Mills (1916), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 41Before him are John Archibald Wheeler (1911), John L. Hall (1934), Frederick Reines (1918), Willis Lamb (1913), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), and David Lee (1931). After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), George E. Smith (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and Burton Richter (1931).