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Nicolaas Bloembergen

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Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.
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Nobel Prize Autobiography, from Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1980, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, (Nobel Foundation), Stockholm (1981).

 
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