Nico Bloembergen Master of Light /

• Main Author: Herber, Rob (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Physics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; History.; Popular Science in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; History of Science.

This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen. Born in 1920 in Dordrecht, Bloembergen studied physics in Utrecht, leaving after World War II for the United States, where he became an American citizen in 1958. At Harvard University, he pioneered...