Nicolaas Bloembergen shares the physics prize for developing laser spectroscopy. His contributions to nonlinear optics explained how intense light interacts with matter and enabled new ways of probing atomic and molecular structure.
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Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nobel Prize history for Nicolaas Bloembergen based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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