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Roy J. Glauber

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American theoretical physicist (1925-2018)

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Roy Jay Glauber was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.

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2008honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
2008Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council
2005Nobel Prize in Physics
1997Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1996Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
1985Albert A. Michelson Medal
1985Max Born Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Humboldt Prize
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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Roy Jay Glauber was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch. In this work, published in 1963, he created a model for photodetection and explained the fundamental characteristics of different types of light, such as laser light and light from light bulbs. His theories are widely used in the field of quantum optics. In statistical physics he pioneered the study of the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, since he first defined and investigated the stochastic dynamics of an Ising model in a paper published in 1963.

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Lived 1925 to 2018 · aged 93
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