| Roy J. Glauber AKA Roy Jay Glauber Born: 1-Sep-1925
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Quantum optics Military service: US Army (1942-44) As a child, Roy J. Glauber was mesmerized by Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas and Sir Walter Scott. In high school he built his own telescope, using it to photograph a lunar eclipse, and later he built a spectroscope that won the city's science fair and was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. His education at Harvard was interrupted when Pearl Harbor was bombed, bringing America into World War II and Glauber into the Army. He briefly taught physics for the military's specialized training program, before being assigned -- at age 18 -- to the Manhattan Project, where he worked on neutron diffusion. Returning to Harvard after the war, he studied under Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger.
His research helped scientists to understand the behavior of light, and created the new field of quantum optics. He illuminated the difference between light from thermal sources (like light bulbs) and laser technology, and he became the namesake of coherent states of harmonic oscillator, commonly termed 'Glauber states'. Glauber was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005, "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence". The cash award was about $1.3-million, half going to Glauber and the other half split between two co-winners, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch. Father: (traveling salesman)
Wife: Cynthia Rich (dated 1957-60, m. Jul-1960, div.)
Son: Jeffrey Glauber (b. 1963)
Daughter: Valerie G. Fleishman (b. 1970)
High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (1941)
University: BS Physics, Harvard University (1946)
University: PhD Physics, Harvard University (1949)
Scholar: Physics, Princeton University (1949-50)
Scholar: Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1950-51)
Teacher: Quantum Physics, California Institute of Technology (1951-52)
Teacher: Physics, Harvard University (1952-56)
Professor: Physics, Harvard University (1956-)
Teacher: Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Nobel Prize for Physics 2005 (with John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch)
Manhattan Project
CERN 1967
National Academy of Sciences
Optical Society of America
Royal Society
Author of books:
Quantum Optics (1969)
Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence (2007)
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