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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.
Alfred Kastler
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Alfred Kastler
Age: 81 †
Born: 1902
Born: May 3
Died: 1984
Died: January 7
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