Facts: - death place: bandol , france - prizes: nobel prize for physics -lrb- 1966 -rrb- - caption: alfred kastler - death date: 7 january 1984 -lrb- aged 81 -rrb- - field: physics - doctoral advisor: pierre daure - birth date: 3 may 1902 - name: alfred kastler - image size: 200px - nationality: france - image: kastler.jpg - birth place: guebwiller , alsace , german empire Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alfred kastler .
alfred kastler -lrb- 3 may 1902 -- 7 january 1984 -rrb- was a french physicist , and nobel prize laureate .kastler was born in guebwiller -lrb- alsace , german empire -rrb- and later attended the lycee bartholdi in colmar , alsace , and Ecole normale superieure in paris in 1921 .after his studies , in 1926 he began teaching physics at the lycee 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 Ecole normale superieure , where he finally obtained a chair in 1952 .collaborating with jean brossel , he researched quantum mechanics , the interaction between light and atoms , and spectroscopy .kastler , working on combination of optical resonance and magnetic resonance , developed the technique of '' optical pumping '' .those works led to the completion of the theory of lasers and masers .he won the nobel prize in physics in 1966 '' for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying hertzian resonances in atoms '' .he was president of the board of the institut d'optique theorique et appliquee and served as the first chairman of the non-governmental organization -lrb- ngo -rrb- action against hunger .kastler also wrote poetry -lrb- in german -rrb- .in 1971 he published '' europe , ma patrie : deutsche lieder eines franzosischen europaers '' -lrb- i.e. '' europe , my fatherland : german songs of a french european '' -rrb- .in 1978 he became foreign member of the royal netherlands academy of arts and sciences .in 1979 , kastler was awarded the wilhelm exner medal .