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Dean Ford, professor of History, was active in organizing the committee which raised funds in the United States. Hendrik S. Houthakker, professor of Economics, and Nicholas Bloembergen, Gordon McKay professor of Applied Physics, were members of the Faculty on the committee...
...Bloembergen's maser is used to amplify weak radiations of very short wavelength--for example, microwave radio signals. In use for a year-and-a-half on the Harvard College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope, the maser has already helped double the known number of radio stars...
...Bloembergen conceived the first practical solid state maser in 1956. The first operational version was completed in December, 1956 by a Bell Telephone scientist...
...Bloembergen's solution was to use a crystal instead of a gas and to devise a means for keeping a large proportion of the atoms in the crystal in the higher energy states...
...Bloembergen himself is continuing his work on masers with research on the basic physical mechanisms involved