Roy J. Glauber

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Roy J. Glauber
Glauber states
Glauber dynamics
Glauber–Sudarshan P representation
Spouse(s)
Cynthia Rich
b.1933
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(m. 1960; div. 1975)​
[4]
Children2: Jeffrey and Valerie [5]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical Physics
Institutions
ThesisThe relativistic theory of meson fields (1949)
Doctoral advisorJulian Schwinger[2]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/glauber

Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American

phase transitions, since he first defined and investigated the stochastic dynamics of an Ising model in a paper published in 1963.[8]
He served on the National Advisory Board[9] of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the research arms of Council for a Livable World.

Education

Glauber was born in 1925 in New York City into a

atom bomb. After two years at Los Alamos, he returned to Harvard, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1946 and his PhD in 1949.[12]

Research

Glauber's recent research dealt with problems in a number of areas of quantum optics, a field which, broadly speaking, studies the

quantum electrodynamical interactions of light and matter. He also continued work on several topics in high-energy collision theory, including the analysis of hadron collisions, and the statistical correlation of particles produced in high-energy reactions.[citation needed
]

Specific topics of his research included: the quantum mechanical behavior of trapped

Bose–Einstein condensation; the theory of continuously monitored photon counting-and its reaction on quantum sources; the fundamental nature of "quantum jumps"; resonant transport of particles produced multiply in high-energy collisions; the multiple diffraction model of proton-proton and proton-antiproton scattering.[citation needed
]

Awards and honors

Glauber received the

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1997.[1]

After Glauber was selected for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005, a University of Texas at Austin Physics Professor, George Sudarshan, claimed that he had been overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee for the award, having published some of the earliest papers on quantum optics. Glauber, a theorist, was awarded half the prize, along with physics experimenters John Hall and Theodor Hänsch, recognized for their work on precision spectroscopy.[15][16][17]

Ig Nobel

For many years before winning his Nobel Prize, Glauber took part in the

paper airplanes that have traditionally been thrown during the event. He missed the 2005 event as he was being awarded his real Nobel Prize for Physics.[18][19]

Personal life

Glauber lived in Arlington, Massachusetts. He was a guest scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1967, during a sabbatical.[4] In 1951, he became a temporary lecturer at the California Institute of Technology, where he replaced Richard Feynman.[20][21]

Glauber had a son and a daughter, and five grandchildren. He died on December 26, 2018, in Newton, Massachusetts. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.[22][23][24]


References

  1. ^ a b "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
  2. ^ Roy J. Glauber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. S2CID 77660162
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  4. ^ a b Glauber, Roy J. "Roy J. Glauber - Biographical". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  5. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/obituaries/roy-j-glauber-dead.html#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20his%20son,Atholie%20Rosett%3B%20and%20five%20grandchildren.
  6. PMID 19561567
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  7. ^ R. J. Glauber, Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence. Selected Papers and Lectures, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2007. (A collection of reprints of Glauber's most important papers from 1963 to 1999, selected by the author.)
  8. doi:10.1063/1.1703954
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  9. ^ "Board". Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferatio. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Physics". www.jinfo.org. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  11. ^ Debus, Allen G. (6 January 1968). "World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present". Marquis-Who's Who – via Google Books.
  12. OCLC 76985581
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  13. ^ "Roy J. Glauber, Physics (1985)". Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  14. ^ "Nota informativa acto de entrega de la medalla de Oro del CSIC al profesor Roy J. Glauber" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  15. ^ "Roy J. Glauber, 93, Dies; Nobel Laureate Explored Behavior of Light (Published 2019)". 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  16. ^ "Nobel Doubts". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  17. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  18. ^ Abrahams, Marc (2018-12-28). "Sad news: Roy Glauber, paper airplane sweeper and physicist of light, is gone". improbable.com. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  19. ^ Abrahams, Marc (2018-12-28). "Sad news: Roy Glauber, paper airplane sweeper and physicist of light, is gone". improbable.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  20. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  21. ^ "Glauber, Roy J., 1925-". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  22. ^ McClain, Dylan (January 8, 2019). "Roy J. Glauber, 93, Dies; Nobel Laureate Explored Behavior of Light". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 8, 2019. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  23. ^ "In Memoriam: Roy J. Glauber, 1925-2018". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  24. ^ Weil, Martin (December 30, 2018). "Roy Glauber, Nobel-winning physicist who applied quantum mechanics to optics, dies at 93". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 12, 2019.

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