FoTO GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Nicolaas Bloembergen Graduate Student Scholarship in Optical Sciences
Born in the Netherlands in 1920 , Nicolaas Bloembergen earned his undergraduate and master ’ s degrees from the University of Utrecht . After World War II , he studied at Harvard University , where he was the first graduate student of Edward M . Purcell , who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 .
Bloembergen introduced the three-level maser , a forerunner of the laser , in 1956 . In 1964 , he wrote the first book in the subfield of nonlinear optics . He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1981 for work with far-ranging applications in communications , medicine and security .
The Nicolaas Bloembergen Graduate Student Scholarship was established in 2006 by John A . and Elizabeth S . Armstrong in honor of Bloembergen and his revolutionary research . The scholarship was further strengthened with a generous donation made by Nicolaas and Huberta D . Bloembergen in 2015 .
John A . and Elizabeth S . Armstrong
Nicolaas and Huberta D . Bloembergen
PRAJIT DHARA
Entering his first-year as a Ph . D . student at Wyant College , Prajit is studying the applications of quantum optics for tasks such as communication , computing and information processing .
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