Nicolaas Bloembergen was born on March 11, 1920.

Nicolaas Bloembergen was born on March 11, 1920.

Nicolaas Bloembergen won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1982.

Nobel-Prize winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen was 97 years old when he died on September 5, 2017 (birthdate: March 11, 1920).

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 was divided, one half jointly to Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy and the other half to Kai M. Siegbahn for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy.