Awards & Winners

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Date of Birth 05-May-1921
Place of Birth Mount Vernon
(United States of America, New York, Westchester County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Arthur Schawlow, A.L. Schawlow, Art Schawlow
Profession Physicist, Scientist, Educator, Author
Quotes
  • To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn.

Awards by Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Check all the awards nominated and won by Arthur Leonard Schawlow.

1991


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his role in the conception of the laser and in advancing its applications, especially in laser spectroscopy.)

1981


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.)