Arthur Leonard Schawlow

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the development of the laser.

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instanceOf American physicist
Nobel laureate
human
physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
awardReceived Frederic Ives Medal NERFINISHED
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 NERFINISHED
Stuart Ballantine Medal NERFINISHED
Young Medal and Prize NERFINISHED
burialPlace Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States NERFINISHED
coAuthor Charles H. Townes NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1921-05-05
dateOfDeath 1999-04-28
doctoralAdvisor John C. Polanyi NERFINISHED
educatedAt University of Toronto
employer Bell Telephone Laboratories NERFINISHED
Stanford University
familyName Schawlow NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork laser physics
physics
spectroscopy
fullName Arthur Leonard Schawlow NERFINISHED
givenName Arthur NERFINISHED
hasChild Arthur Schawlow Jr. NERFINISHED
Edwin Schawlow NERFINISHED
Helen Schawlow NERFINISHED
knownFor co-authoring a seminal paper on the maser and laser
development of the laser
laser spectroscopy
memberOf American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
nobelPrizeCategory Physics
nobelPrizeMotivation for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy
nobelPrizeYear 1981
notableWork Microwave Spectroscopy NERFINISHED
proposal for an optical maser (laser)
placeOfBirth Mount Vernon, New York, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Palo Alto, California, United States NERFINISHED
positionHeld Professor of Physics at Stanford University
relative Charles H. Townes NERFINISHED
religion Methodism
sharedNobelPrizeWith Kai M. Siegbahn NERFINISHED
Nicolaas Bloembergen NERFINISHED
spouse Aurora Townes NERFINISHED
workLocation Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED
Stanford, California, United States NERFINISHED

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Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science namedAfter Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science namedAfter Arthur Leonard Schawlow
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Frederic Ives Medal notableRecipient Arthur Leonard Schawlow
this entity surface form: Arthur L. Schawlow