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3 Optics Researchers Win Nobels

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 4 -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today to three scientists -- two Americans and a German -- working in the field of optics. One half of this year's $1.3 million prize was awarded to Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence." In 1963, Glauber developed a method for using electromagnetic quantization to understand optical observations. He carried out a consistent description of photoelectric detection with the...Read full article

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    Published: October 2005
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