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In 1969 one of the first ever summer schools in Quantum Optics was held at the historic Carberry Towers [1], just outside Edinburgh. This was one of a long line of Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics that have attracted leading physicists and promising students over many generations. A newly graduated Theo Hänsch was a student at the summer school and lectures were given by such luminaries as Roy Glauber, Dan Walls, Nicolaas Bloembergen [2] and George Series. Seminars were given by Alfred Kastler, Art Schawlow and Leonard Mandel. Art Schawlow’s lecture on “Lasers-Present and Future” inspired the young Hänsch who was “immediately captivated by his warmth, his keen mind, and his contagious sense of humour.” Ted was seeking to broaden his experience and he persuaded Art to take him on as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and in March 1970 Ted left Germany for Stanford University. Over the next 16 years Ted entered one of the most innovative phases of his career and built one of the most successful scientific partnerships of the twentieth century with his friend and colleague, Art Schawlow.
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See Peter Higgs’ Nobel lecture where he attended a previous Summer School at Carberry Towers and was the wine steward
One of the authors (AIF) was privileged to be a student when Bloembergen gave a set of lectures at a subsequent Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics held in Edinburgh in 1975
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McIntyre, D.H., Ferguson, A.I. (2018). Ted’s Stanford Days. In: Meschede, D., Udem, T., Esslinger, T. (eds) Exploring the World with the Laser. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_43
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