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Renowned for having created the field of quantum optics in 1963, Glauber is honored “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence,” according to a press release from the academy...
...Glauber, who was invited to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project while attending Harvard, said his work on quantum optics stemmed from earlier experiments in optics that rarely applied quantum theory...
...glimmer of the Nobel Prize has once again dawned on Harvard, almost a decade after a Harvard professor last received the honor—Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday...
...whole science has developed of dealing with light quanta and atoms in very small numbers,” Glauber said. “But in dealing in large numbers, you had to use other calculation techniques, and those were some of the things I developed...
...Glauber shares the prize with fellow American John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hänsch and will receive half of the $1.29 million prize...