Arthur L. Schawlow
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LOCATION: Stanford, CA, United States
Professor of Physics, Stanford University, California. Cowinner, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1981, for the development of laser spectroscopy.
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Maser, device that produces and amplifies electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range of the spectrum. The first maser was built by the American physicist Charles H. Townes. Its name is an acronym for “microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” The wavelength produced by a…
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