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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

1921–1999

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) was an American physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy. He was a co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes and made pioneering advances in the use of lasers for high-precision measurement and atomic physics.

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Microwave Spectroscopy (with Charles Townes, 1955)
Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules (1978)
Nobel Lecture: 'Spectroscopy in a New Light' (1981)
Numerous papers on laser cooling, atomic beams, and high-resolution spectroscopy

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