Word: gade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using a tennis racquet, a cardboard box and an overhead projector, Purcell, Gade University Professor Emeritus, demonstrated that light is transmitted in waves rather than particles, and other basic theories of physics...
...Monday morning phone call from local radio station WGBH woke Nicolaas Bloembergen and his wife, Deli, but it was well worth it. Bloembergen, the interviewer said, had just been awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics--an honor the Gade University Professor later called "recognition for a lifetime of work...
Described by his longtime colleague Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, as "a very great and very much loved friend," Van Vleck is best known for creating the modern theory of quantum magnetism based on quantum mechanics...