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...when he was appointed director of one of IBM’s major research labs at East Fishkill, N.Y., Armstrong no longer conducted original research. Instead, he rose in the administrative ranks, overseeing all of IBM’s research in 1986. At this time, the research department was staffed with 16,000 Ph.D’s and had a budget of $160 million...
...graduate student and then as a postdoctoral research fellow, Armstrong worked in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance and nonlinear optics. His post-doctoral adviser was Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics for a paper co-authored by Armstrong on laser spectroscopy and non-linear optics...
...However Armstrong, who had no intention of becoming an academic, signed on at IBM after completing his post-doctorate in 1963. There he continued the research he had pursued at Harvard, becoming an expert on the study of lasers...
...Colleague John J. Wynne ’64 was hired by Armstrong in 1964 to work in his IBM laboratory. Wynne also studied physics at Harvard under Bloembergen, though not until after Armstrong had left the University...
...team in Armstrong’s lab was known as the Harvard Mafia, according to Wynne. Though Armstrong was Wynne’s supervisor, the two became collaborators and published several papers together, mostly on laser science...