Peter P. Sorokin

Peter P. Sorokin (* July 10, 1931 in Boston ) is an American physicist who deals with laser physics.

Sorokin studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1953), where he was in 1958 a Ph.D. in Applied Physics. From 1957 he was a physicist at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, where he has been since 1968 IBM Fellow.

It shall Fritz Peter Schaefer from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen as the inventor of the dye laser ( 1966). Sorokin published before Shepherd, but it provided as a reviewer ( referee ) that the reason initially rejected work of Shepherd was but still published in Applied Physics Letters (Schafer was the first to be an important aspect of the dye laser whose tunability ).

Since 1976 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.

Later he dealt among other things with lasers in the far UV and femtosecond pulse laser in the UV.

He has been married since 1977 and has two children.

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