Nicolaas Bloembergen
1920-
Dutch-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for work leading to the first continuous maser. The maser (a microwave equivalent of the laser) had been invented in 1954 by...
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Overcoming the academic hardships imposed by the Nazi occupation in his native Netherlands, Nicolaas Bloembergen went on to conduct important work in the study of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the...
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