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Alfred Kastler

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French physicist (1902–1984)

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Alfred Kastler was a male person from Austria. He was born on May 3, 1902, and died on January 7, 1984. He held an Erdős number of 7. Kastler was recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Physics collection. He received one Nobel Prize.

He authored six works, including Thermodynamique, Face au chantage, Polarisation, matière et rayonnement, volume jubilaire en l'honneur d'Alfred Kastler, Cette étrange matière, and La diffusion de la lumière par les milieux troubles; influence de la grosseur des particules. Crossref lists five works by him. His name is referenced by 408 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Thermodynamique
  • Face au chantage
  • Polarisation, matière et rayonnement, volume jubilaire en l'honneur d'Alfred Kastler
  • Cette étrange matière
  • La diffusion de la lumiére par les milieux troubles; influence de la grosseur des particules

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1956

Discography

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1966

    for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms

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Encyclopedic overview

Alfred Kastler ( French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alfred Kastler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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