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A Permanent Position in Harvard. Marriage

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Nico Bloembergen

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In 1952 Bloembergen receives an invitation to attend a congress in Japan. He travels by military aircraft. During the Korean war, however, this is far from simple. It takes Bloembergen almost a week to get from Boston.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Detection device for ionizing radiation by recording the flashes (scintillations) produced by the radiation in certain materials, called scintillators. A scintillator is a material that emits light flashes (fluorescence) upon exposure to radiation. To detect gamma radiation, NaI (T1) single crystals are particularly suitable; for beta radiation, anthracene or diphenyloxazole dissolved in toluene are situable (www.nrg.eu.).

  2. 2.

    An assay is a method in molecular biology to demonstrate the activity of a substance in an organic sample. The method described here is known as a radioimmunoassay (RIA). In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow received the shared Nobel Prize for Medicine for the development of an RIA method for insulin.

  3. 3.

    The Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKO) was set up a few months after the FOM in 1945 to carry out nuclear physics research in the Netherlands and was located in the Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer, near the FOM institute of which Kistemaker was director. The successor to the IKO is the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef), a collaboration of FOM, the University of Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University.

  4. 4.

    Walter Gropius (1883–1969) was a German architect who founded the Bauhaus, an academy for architecture and applied art in Weimar, in 1919. After the Nazis seized power, Gropius left for the United Kingdom in 1934, and the United States in 1937, where he became a professor in Harvard. In 1938, Marcel Breuer came to Harvard and founded an architectural firm with him. In 1946 Gropius founded The Architects Collaborative with seven others (www.walter-gropius.com). The office built homes in Five Fields from 1951 to 1959 (en.wikipedia.org).

  5. 5.

    In metallurgy, an alloy is a solid mixture of a metal with one or more other elements (usually another metal). Examples are bronze (copper and tin), brass (copper and zinc), cast iron (iron with a high carbon content), and steel (iron, carbon, and many other components, such as nickel, chromium, manganese, and vanadium).

  6. 6.

    Antiferromagnetism, like ferromagnetism, is an expression of orderly magnetism. It occurs when the temperature goes below a certain value, the Néel temperature. Examples of antiferromagnetic substances are hematite, chromium, and alloys such as iron manganese and nickel (II) oxide.

  7. 7.

    A chemical element is determined by the number of protons in the nucleus. One proton in the nucleus is hydrogen, two is helium, and so on. In addition, there may be different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus. Examples are deuterium (hydrogen with a proton and a neutron) and the above-mentioned copper isotopes. Copper has 29 protons; there is an isotope with 34 neutrons (63Cu) and an isotope with 36 neutrons (65Cu). As can be seen, the notation indicates the total number of protons and neutrons.

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Herber, R. (2019). A Permanent Position in Harvard. Marriage. In: Nico Bloembergen. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25737-8_9

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