
Person
Alfred Kastler
1902 – 1984 · aged 82
French physicist (1902–1984)
- Born
- 3 May 1902 · Guebwiller
- Died
- 7 Jan 1984 · Bandol
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
Showing 94 years
- 3 May 1902BornBorn in Guebwiller
- 1946AwardPrix Félix-Robin
- 1954AwardHolweck Prize
- 1962AwardC.E.K. Mees Medal
- 1964AwardCNRS Gold medal
- 1965AwardThree Physicists Prize
- 1966AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1967AwardHonorary doctorate at the Laval University
- 1979 – 1984RoleChairperson
- 1979AwardWilhelm Exner Medal
- 7 Jan 1984DiedDied in Bandol
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1902 – 1984).
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
Biography
Alfred Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.
Text from the Wikipedia article Alfred Kastler, CC BY-SA 4.0
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