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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981

"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"
"for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy"
Nicolaas Bloembergen Arthur Leonard Schawlow Kai M. Siegbahn
Nicolaas Bloembergen Arthur Leonard Schawlow Kai M. Siegbahn
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA Sweden
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA		 Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA		 Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
b. 1920
(in Dordrecht, the Netherlands)		 b. 1921
d. 1999		 b. 1918
d. 2007
 
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