We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
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| Birth: | 3rd May, 1902 |
| Death: | 7th January, 1984 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Physicist |
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Alfred Kastler was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Kastler was born in Guebwiller and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921. After his studies, in 1926 he began teaching physics at the Lycée of Mulhouse, and then taught at the University of Bordeaux, where he was a university professor until 1941. Georges Bruhat asked him to come back to the École Normale Supérieure, where he finally obtained a chair in 1952. Kastler also wrote poetry. In 1979 he published Europe, ma patrie: Deutsche Lieder eines französischen Europäers Europe, my fatherland: German songs of a French European.
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