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Roy Jay Glauber in memoriam

The 2005 Nobel laureate, Roy Jay Glauber, sadly passed away on 26 December 2018 at the age of 93. He was highly regarded for his work on the quantum theory of coherence, as well as for his contributions to nuclear physics, scattering theory and statistical mechanics.

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Haake, F., Lewenstein, M. Roy Jay Glauber in memoriam. Nat. Photonics 13, 299–301 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0420-8

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