Nicolaas Bloembergen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Dutch-born American physicist

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1920

Place of Birth: Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 05-Sep-2017

Profession: physicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy.
During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work.