Roy J. Glauber
Roy Jay Glauber ( born September 1, 1925 in New York, NY, USA) is an American physicist. He is Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Life
Glauber graduated from high school in New York as one of the first, which was founded in 1939 Bronx High School of Science, a famous elite public school. In 1940 he won with photos he shot through home-built telescopes and spectroscopes, a science prize for students of Westinghouse Corporation, and also with his self-built spectroscopes he won in 1939 prices. He was also active in the 1930s in Dorothy Bennett's "Junior Astronomy Club ", which was affiliated with the New York planetarium. After finishing school in 1941 he studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During World War II he worked in the theoretical department in the Manhattan Project, where he dealt with the more accurate calculation of critical mass. He did his Bachelor of Science at Harvard in 1946 and received his PhD in 1949 with Julian Schwinger on a subject of quantum field theory. Then he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and in Zurich with Wolfgang Pauli, before the mediation Robert Oppenheimer his first teaching position at Caltech in Pasadena received in representation Richard Feynman, who was one year after Brazil. The employees at the local research group Linus Pauling awoke his interest in scattering theory. From the late 1950s he was concerned more with the physics of the then newly developed masers and lasers. Since 1976 he is a professor at Harvard and since 1988 professor of optical faculty at the University of Arizona. Glauber was throughout his career a visiting professor or professor at CERN, at Leiden University and at the Collège de France in Paris.
He married in 1960 and has two children.
Work
Roy Jay Glauber research in the field of quantum optics. He explored, among others, the physics of coherent radiation, where he developed a formula for coherent states. In addition, he was concerned with the scattering of high-energy particles, eg hadron of cores, in which the wavelength of the scattered particles is smaller than the range of the interaction, similar to diffraction phenomena in the optical system only with the inclusion of inelastic scattering ( Glauber's theory).
In 2005 he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for physics, while the other half to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch went. In 1996 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
Others
In recent years, he had the honor during the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony to sweep as " broom master " the paper airplane from the stage.
Publications
- Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence: Selected Papers and Lectures. Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2007. ISBN 978-3527406876
- The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence Phys. Rev. 130, 2529-2539 (1963 )
- Theory of high energy hadron - nucleus collisions. 3rd International Conference of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure 1969. P.207