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Nicolaas Bloembergen was born in 1920 in the Netherlands. He obtained the equivalent of a bachelor's and master's degree in physics at the University of Utrecht. He carried out research for the PhD degree under the guidance of Professor E M Purcell at Harvard University in 1946 and 1947, later becoming a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor C J Gorter at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory at the University of Leiden, where he obtained his PhD in 1948. From 1949 to 1951 he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where he has held a series of tenured faculty positions since 1951. He is now Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus.
In 1981, Professor Bloembergen received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was also the recipient of the Lorentz medal of the Royal Dutch Academy in 1978. The President of the United States of America has also awarded him the national Medal of Science. His other awards include the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, the Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America, and the Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Professor Bloembergen is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the American Philosophical Society. He is a foreign associate of academics in the Netherlands, France, Germany, India, and Norway.