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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

American physicist.

Born May 5th, 1921 in Mount Vernon.

Died April 28th, 1999 at 77 years old in Palo Alto.

Occupations
inventor, physicist, university teacher

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander