biography
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Happer, William, Jr
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Atomic physicist and optical engineer, born in Vellore, India, to an American medical missionary and a Scottish medical military officer. His mother brought him home to North Carolina in 1941. He joined Columbia University (1964–80), where he invented the miniaturized resonance magnetometer (1977), went to Princeton (1980–91), and then moved to the US Department of Energy (1991). He made major contributions to the fields of optics, laser spectroscopy, and spin polarization. |
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