| Nicolaas Bloembergen  Born: 11-Mar-1920
Birthplace: Dordrecht, Netherlands
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nonlinear optics From his self-penned Nobel autobiographical essay:
The remaining two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.
Father: Auke Bloembergen (chemical engineer)
Mother: Sophia Maria Quint (French teacher)
Wife: Huberta Deliana Brink (m. 1950, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Antonia
Son: Brink
Daughter: Juliana
University: University of Utrecht (1941)
University: MA, University of Utrecht (1943)
University: Harvard University
University: PhD, University of Leiden (1948)
Professor: Harvard University (1951-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1956
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
National Academy of Sciences 1959
Nobel Prize for Physics 1981 (with Arthur L. Schawlow and Kai M. Siegbahn)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957
National Medal of Science 1974
Lorentz Medal 1978
IEEE Medal of Honor 1983
Naturalized US Citizen 1958
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