Arthur leonard schawlow biography

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, – April 28, ) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser....

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science.

I was born in Mount Vernon, New York, USA on May 5, My father had come from Europe a decade earlier.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, – April 28, ) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser.

In Schawlow became a professor at Stanford University.

Arthur L. Schawlow was born in Mount Vernon, New. York, on May 5, His mother, Helen Mason, was from.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

American physicist; co-inventor of the laser (1921–1999)

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science.

His central insight was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work using lasers to determine atomic energy levels with great precision.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Schawlow was born in Mount Vernon, New York.

His mother, Helen (Mason), was from Canada, and his father, Arthur Schawlow, was a Jewish immigrant from Riga (then in the Russian Empire, now in Latvia). Schawlow was raised in his mother's Protestant religion.^[3] When Arthur was three years old, they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

At the age of 16, he completed high school at Vaughan Road Acad