Nicolaas Bloembergen

thumb|Nicolaas Bloembergen Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch/American physicist, who was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. Quotes Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. Nobel Prize Autobiography, from Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1980, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, (Nobel Foundation), Stockholm (1981). External links Nicolaas Bloembergen's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Category:1920 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Academics from the Netherlands Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from the Netherlands Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:Agnostics from the United States Category:Nobel laureates from the Netherlands Category:Nobel laureates from the United States Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society