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Chapters
- 00:16Title
- 00:23Quantum Optics and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
- 02:11Bizarre Applications of Strange Phenomena
- 04:00The Los Alamos Project – Building the Bomb
- 07:23The Los Alamos Project – Robert Oppenheimer
- 08:58On Nobel Laureates
The field of quantum optics rests on the work of Roy Glauber, who helped elucidate the nature of light as both particles and waves. In this candid interview, the Nobel prize-winning physicist shares his thoughts about this strange and unintuitive behavior of light, balancing fatherhood with an academic career, and working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he shockingly learned that he was helping to build The Bomb.
