page_title: Nicolaas Bloembergen
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolaas Bloembergen / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Nico Bloembergen thuis in Tucson
context_page_description: Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.
  Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work.
context_section_description: Corresponding member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 1956
  Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1955 
  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1956
  Member, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1960
  Foreign Honorary Member, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1978
  Associé Étranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1981
  Guggenheim Fellow, 1957
  Oliver Buckley Prize, American Physical Society, 1958
  IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, Institute of Radio Engineers, 1959
  Stuart Ballantine Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1961
  National Medal of Science, President of the United States of America, 1974
  Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 1978
  Frederic Ives Medal, Optical Society of America, 1979
  Von Humboldt Senior Scientist, 1980
  Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1983
  Member Emeritus, United States National Academy of Engineering, 1984
caption: Bloembergen in 2006
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