Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American

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

He went on to accept a position at Bell Labs in late 1951. He left in 1961 to join the faculty at Stanford University as a professor. He remained at Stanford until he retired to emeritus status in 1996.

Although his research focused on

Schawlow coauthored the widely used text Microwave Spectroscopy (1955) with Charles Townes. Schawlow and Townes were the first to publish the theory of laser design and operation in their seminal 1958 paper on "optical masers",

In 1991, the

Schawlow and Professor Robert Hofstadter at Stanford, who also had an autistic child, teamed up to help each other find solutions to the condition. Arthur Jr. was put in a special center for autistic individuals, and later, Schawlow put together an institution to care for people with autism in Paradise, California. It was later named the Arthur Schawlow Center in 1999, shortly before his death. Schawlow was a promoter of the controversial method of facilitated communication with patients of autism.^[7][8]

He considered himself to be an orthodox Protestant Christian, and attended a Methodist church.^[3] Arthur Schawlow was an intense fan and collector of traditional American jazz recordings, as well as a supporter of instrumental groups performing this type of music.

Schawlow died of leukemia in Palo Alto, California, on April 28, 1999, at the age 77.

Awards and honors

• 1962 - Stuart Ballantine Medal
• 1963 -
  Institute of physics
• 1970 - elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[9]
• 1970 - elected to the National Academy of Sciences^[10]
• 1976 - awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by
  OSA
• 1981 -
  Nobel Prize for Physics
• 1983 - Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement^[11]
• 1984 - elected to the American Philosophical Society^[12]

Bibliography

• Schawlow, A L (1995), "Principles of lasers", Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery, vol. 13, no. 3 (published Jun 1995), pp. 127–30,
  PMID 10150635
• Schawlow, AL (1982), "Spectroscopy in a New Light",
  PMID 17739964
• Schawlow, AL (1978), "Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules", Science, 202 (4364) (published Oct 13, 1978): 141–147,
  PMID 17801904
• McCaul, B W; Schawlow, A L (1969), "Plasma refractive effects in HCN lasers", Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 168, no. 3 (published Feb 10, 1969), pp. 697–702,
  S2CID 31588499
• Schawlow, A L (1966), "Lasers", International Ophthalmology Clinics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 241–51,
  PMID 5958291

See also

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• Optical Society of America#Past Presidents of the OSA
• List of Jewish Nobel laureates

References

1. ^ "Arthur L. Schawlow". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
2. doi:10.1063/1.2802854
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3. ^ ^{a b} "The religion of Arthur Schawlow, Nobel Prize-winning physicist; worked with lasers". www.adherents.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.112.1940
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5. OCLC 122973716
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6. Time magazine article: Galileo And Other Faithful Scientists
7. ^ "Arthur Schawlow, Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the laser, dies: 4/99". News-service.stanford.edu. 1999-05-05. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2006-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. ^ "Arthur Leonard Schawlow". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
10. ^ "Arthur L. Schawlow". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
11. American Academy of Achievement
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12. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19.

External links

• Arthur Leonard Schawlow on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1981 Spectroscopy in a New Light
• Nobel Winner: Arthur Leonard Schawlow
• Bright Idea: The First Lasers (laser history) Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Press Release: The 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow obituary