- Roy J. Glauber was born on September 1, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Cynthia Rich. He died on December 26, 2018 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseCynthia Rich(1960 - 1975) (divorced, 2 children)
- He was an American physicist who was co-laureate of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for his pioneering work in quantum optics. The other laureates were John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch for their achievements in precision spectroscopy.
- With a scholarship, he entered Harvard in the fall of 1941. He had skipped two grades in public school, so he was two years younger than most of his college classmates.
- He was recruited for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was one of the last survivors among the scientists who witnessed the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert in 1945. After WWII, he returned to Harvard, completed his undergraduate degree, and earned his doctorate. He spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,New Jersey, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the architects of the atomic bomb.
- As a child, he built model airplanes and a reflecting telescope. A spectroscope he built as a teenager helped him win two science fair prizes.
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