Arthur Leonard Schawlow Quotes

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work using lasers to determine atomic energy levels with great precision. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. May 1921 – 28. April 1999
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Famous Arthur Leonard Schawlow Quotes

“To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.”

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10830, 0-309-08699-X, 201]

“Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.”

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 201]

“Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.”

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

answering question if the subject of spectroscopy was dead for the physicists, as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 202]

“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted in [Dave DeMille, Diatomic molecules, a window onto fundamental physics, Physics Today, 2015, December, 34, 68, 12, 10.1063/PT.3.3020]

“Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.”

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 203]

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