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John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.
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science · American physicist (born 1934) · physicist · university teacher · also John L. Hall, John Lewis Hall, John Hall, Hall
Born 21 August 1934 · Q206390
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
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Hall donated his Nobel Prize medal to the University of Colorado Boulder
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Hall signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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Published “BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features” in Bioinformatics — cited 27,692 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2005).
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Awarded I. I. Rabi Award (2004).
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Awarded Max Born Award (2002).
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Published “SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique” in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research — cited 26,755 times.
Awarded Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (1993).
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Awarded Einstein Prize for Laser Science (1992).
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Won Frederic Ives Medal (1991).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Paris 13 University (1989).
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Awarded Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (1988).
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Awarded Charles Hard Townes Award (1984).
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Awarded Samuel Wesley Stratton Award (1971).
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Born 1934-08-21.
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