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Alfred Kastler
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Alfred Kastler

Author · born May 3, 1902 · died 1984

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Alfred Kastler was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.

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  1. ~64Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1966

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