Nico Bloembergen

Nico Bloembergen

Master of Light

Herber, Rob

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

01/2021

381

Mole

Inglês

9783030257392

15 a 20 dias

562

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Introduction.- Part One. FAMILY AND UPBRINGING.- the BLOEMBERGEN Dynasty: high peaks and deep valleys.- Bilthoven: Playground for the elite (1925-1938). Primary school and High school.- Part Two. STUDIES.- IN THE footsteps OF LORENTZ, KRAMERS, AND ORNSTEIN.- BSc and MSc exams in wartime - INFECTED by science.- Quantum mechanics and oil lampS: Bilthoven in the war.- Part Three. From atoms to humans: nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI.- A leap into the deep.- To Harvard: Tintin in America (1946-1947).- Doctorate in Leiden: in the lab of Kamerlingh Onnes (1947-1948).- A permanent position in Harvard. Marriage.- From atoms to humans: Chemical shift and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Part Four. Masers and lasers.- The birth of the maser - Oil and the Milky Way: applications of the maser.- The Wild West and Soviets - laser applications From eyes to cars.- Part Five. Non-linear optics, the icing on the cake.- From lasers to nonlinear optics.- Crowning glory: the Nobel Prize.- Part Six. Star wars.- STrategic Defense Initiative (SDI).- Part Seven. TAKING THINGS EASY.- Emeritus, but not retired.
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Nico Bloembergen Biography;Nobel Prize Winner Physics 1981;Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy;Magnetic resonance imaging;Nuclear magnetic relaxation;Laser spectroscopy;Nobel prize laser spectroscopy;Dutch Nobel laureates;Nuclear quadrupole interactions in alloys;Three-level solid state maser;Interactions of picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses;Pioneer nonlinear optics;Strategic defense initiative;Physics education during World War II;Reagan's Star Wars