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Arthur L. Schawlow

Arthur L. SchawlowAKA Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Born: 5-May-1921
Birthplace: Mount Vernon, NY
Died: 28-Apr-1999
Location of death: Palo Alto, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Christian [1]
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Laser spectroscopy


[1] "We are fortunate to have the Bible and especially the New Testament which tells us so much about God in widely accessible human terms."

Wife: (d. 1991 automobile accident, one son, two daughters)
Son: Arthur Keith
Daughter: Helen Aurelia
Daughter: Edith Ellen

    High School: Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute
    University:
PhD, University of Toronto (1949)
    Professor: Physics, Stanford University (1961-91)

    Nobel Prize for Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai M. Siegbahn (1981)
    National Medal of Science 1991
    Bell Laboratories Physicist (1951-61)
    National Academy of Sciences
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Physical Society President (1981)
    Latvian Ancestry Paternal
    Canadian Ancestry Maternal


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