Word: kastler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youth isn't being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard respectfully, with no jeering. There were Maoists, Trotskyites, ordinary Communists, anarchists and "situationists"-a tag for those without preconceived ideologies...
French Physicist Alfred Kastler's prizewinning work, on the optical resonance of atoms, was published more recently-in 1950. It explained his technique for irradiating an atom to make it emit radiation of its own, thereby revealing the nature of its structure. Because Kastler, now 64, paved the way for the later development of the maser-which earned U.S. Physicist
Charles Townes and Russian Physicists Aleksandr Prochorov and Nikolai Basov Nobel Prizes in 1964-his colleagues have long felt that he was overlooked by the Nobel committee. Kastler's award, said Paris' Le Monde test week, was "the repair of an injustice...