Academic Degrees
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Phil. Cand., University of Utrecht, 1941
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Phil. Drs., University of Utrecht, 1943
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Ph.D., University of Leiden, 1948
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A.M. hon.,
Harvard University, 1951
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Dr. es Sciences, hon., Laval University, 1988
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Dr. Sc., hon., University of Connecticut, 1989
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Dr. of Humane Letters, hon., University of Mass. Lowell,,
1994
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Dr. Sc., hon., University of Central Florida, 1996
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Dr. Sc., hon., Moscow State University, 1997
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Dr. Sc., hon., North Carolina State University,
1998
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Dr. Sc., hon., Harvard University, 2000
Employment
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The University of Arizona: Optical Sciences,
Professor, 2001-present
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Harvard
University: Professor Emeritus, 1990-present; Gerhard Gade
University Professor, 1980-1990; Rumford Professor of Physics,
1974-1980; Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, 1957-1974;
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, 1951-1957; Society of
Fellows, 1949-1951; Research Assistant (part-time), 1946-1947
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University
of Leiden,: Research Associate, 1947-1948
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University
of Utrecht: Teaching Fellow (part-time), 1942-1945
Awards and Honors
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Nobel Prize in Physics, 1981
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The National Medal of Science, 1974
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Lorentz Medal, 1978
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IEEE Medal of Honor, 1983
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Frederic Ives Medal, 1979
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Oliver E. Buckley Prize for Solid State Physics, 1958
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Morris Liebmann Memorial Award, 1959
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Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute, 1961
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Alexander von Humbolt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 1980 and 1987
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Alexander von Humbolt Medal, 1989
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Dirac Medal, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1983
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Half-Moon Trophy of the Netherlands Club of New York, 1972
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Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje Nassau, 1983, Netherlands
Professional
Societies
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Member of the National Academy of Sciences,
Washington, D.C.
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Member Emeritus of the National Academy of
Engineering, Washington, D.C.
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Member of the American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, PA
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Cambridge, MA
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Correspondent of the Koninklyke Nederlandse,
Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam
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Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences,
Bangalore, India
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Foreign member of the Deutsche Akadernie der
Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
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Foreign member of Royal Norwegian Scientific
Society, Trondheim, Norway
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Associe Etranger de l'Acadernie des Sciences,
Paris
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Honorary Member of the Optical Society of
America
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Fellow of the American Physical Society
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Lifetime Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
Professional Activites
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Guggenheim Fellow, 1957.
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Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure,
Paris, 1957.
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Visiting Professor, University of California,
Berkeley, 1965.
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Lorentz Guest Professor, University of Leiden,
1973.
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Director,
E. Fermi Course on Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Vareena, Italy, 1975 and
editor of the Proceedings.
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Raman Visiting Professor, Bangalore, India,
1979.
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Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris,
1980.
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Senior von Humboldt Scientist, Garching,
Germany, 1980 and 1987.
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar,
California Institute of Technology, 1984.
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Hitchcock Lecturer, University of California,
1984.
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Lecturer at the International Summer Schools:
Bolder, 1962; Varenna, 1963; Les Houches, 1964; Vancouver, 1966;
Crete, 1968; Copenhagen, 1969; Edinburgh, 1969; Buenos Aires, 1978;
Recife, 1992; Crete, 1992; Cetrano, 1995; Erice, 1995.
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President, American Physical Society, 1991.
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Visiting Scientist, CREOL, University of
Central Florida, 1995.
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Visiting Scientist, Optical Sciences,
University of Arizona, Feb. 1996 and 1997.
Research
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Professor Bloembergen's research has included
nuclear and electronic magnetic resonance, solid state masers and
lasers, and especially nonlinear optics and spectroscopy.
Together with his co-workers, he developed a rigorous theory of
nonlinear polarizability, the extension of Maxwell's equations to
include nonlinear source terms and the interaction of multiple waves
in the bulk and at the boundaries of nonlinear media. This
latter work led to the extension of the laws of reflection and
refraction.
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