[AdmSmith]

Roy J. Glauber, born 1925 (80 years) in New York, NY, USA (US citizen). PhD in physics in 1949 from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University.

John L. Hall, born 1934 (71 years) in Denver, CO, USA (US citizen). PhD in physics in 1961 from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

Theodor W. Hänsch, born 1941 (63 years) in Heidelberg, Germany (German citizen). PhD in physics in 1969 from University of Heidelberg. Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching and Professor of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

[AdmSmith]

Technical description: http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2005/adv.html

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Next up, Uncle Al Schwartz and qz.pdf As he says, "The full parity Eötvös experiment in quartz is COMPLETED in PR China as you read this. The Chicom SOB claims the results for himself. Piss on Jun Luo of Huazhong University." http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/

[raj bhatia]

Absolutely great to hear that laser optics won a Nobel again. The last person to win it from the same area was Steve Chu from Stanford for optical trapping in '96. This area holds the solution to some of our greatest fundamental problems in science and the spin-off benefits to medical research, optical storage, microscopy and lithography is tremendous.

Again, great news to begin the day.

[Right Wing Professor]

My old grad. quantum mechanics prof., Roy Glauber! Hot diggety damn! Well deserved prize! I thought he'd never get it!

[Mobilemitter]

"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

I see.

[AdamSelene235]

Wow !!! Jan Hall won the Nobel prize.

I can't believe somebody who deserves the Nobel Prize as much as Jan actually won the Nobel Prize !

[RightWhale]

For a long time they wouldn't give the physics prize for purely theoretical work. Einstein didn't get his Nobel until they found a way to stretch the interpretation.