Arthur Leonard Schawlow
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 25 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 5,1921 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Mount Vernon |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | April 28,1999 |
| Died | Palo Alto |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Spectroscopy |
| Laser spectroscopy | |
| Laser cooling | |
| Job | Author |
| Physicist | |
| Educator | |
| Education | University of Toronto - St. George Campus |
| Vaughan Road Academy | |
| University of Toronto | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
| Stuart Ballantine Medal | |
| Marconi Prize | |
| Young Medal and Prize | |
| Frederic Ives Medal | |
| Spous | Aurelia Townes |
| Doctor student | Antoinette Taylor |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 547135 |
Arthur Leonard Schawlow Life story
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths.
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