About Linn F. Mollenauer
Lived 1937 – 2021 (aged 84). Linn F. Mollenauer was an American physicist and university teacher.
Linn Frederick Mollenauer (1937–2021) was an American physicist who worked on quantum optics, including the study of solitons in fiber optics.
Mollenauer was born on 6 January 1937.
In 1982, he received the R. W. Wood Prize. In 1986, Mollenauer was awarded the Stuart Ballantine Medal. Mollenauer was one of the recipients of the 1991 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics. He received the Charles Hard Townes Award in 1997.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993. He was elected a Fellow of Bell Labs in 2001.
Mollenauer died on 28 July 2021.
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American physicist (1937–2021)
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Linn F. Mollenauer was born on 6 January 1937 in Washington.
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Linn F. Mollenauer died on 28 July 2021.
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Linn F. Mollenauer was a physicist and university teacher.
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Linn F. Mollenauer was American.
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