Roy Jay Glauber#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3443 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/glauber.html |
Roy Jay Glauber passed away December 26, 2018.
Positions Held
- 1956 Professor, Harvard University (Mallinckrodt professor of physics)
- 1952 - 1965 Teacher, Harvard University
- 1951 - 1952 Teacher, California Institute of Technology
- 1950 - 1951 Scholar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1950-51
- 1949 - 1950 Scholar, Princeton University
- 1949 PhD. in Physics, Harvard University
- 1946 B.Sc. in Physics, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Bose-Einstein correlations and Bose-Einstein condensation
- Quantum optics
- Interaction of low-energy neutrons
- High energy hadron and heavy ion induced elementary particle and nuclear reactions
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Albert A. Michelson Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
- 1985 Max Born Award, Optical Society of America
- 1996 Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society
- 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", the other half jointly to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch
- 2008 Gold Medal of the Spanish National Research Council
