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Tag: Glauber

photo of Roy Glauber when he was in high school

Interview with Roy Glauber about Oppenheimer

July 21, 2023 Marc Abrahams

Several years ago, Dan Drollette interviewed Roy Glauber. Here’s a portion of that interview, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “Glauber was one of the youngest scientists in the 1,400-person Los Alamos staff, and afterward he went on to a distinguished career in physics… Glauber was known for his sense of humor, such […]

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The most honored paper airplane sweeper visits China

April 22, 2014 Marc Abrahams

The University of Science and Technology of China reports, on April 21, 2014, that begins: A Noble Laureate, also the Keeper of the Broom of Ig Nobel Prize On April 17th, Roy Glauber, who was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”, […]

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