Born 5 May 1921; died 28 Apr 1999 at age 77.
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an #American #physicist who shared (with independent researchers Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn) the 1981 #NobelPrize for Physics for his work in developing the #laser and in laser #spectroscopy.
With Theodor Hänsch, Schawlow used tunable dye lasers for high resolution spectroscopy. In his early career, Schawlow collaborated with Charles Townes in research of maser principles.
Although he did not share in the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Townes and two Russian scientists for their maser and laser research, Schawlow is still thought of as a coinventor of the laser.
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