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In what field did Schawlow's Nobel-prize-winning work contribute significantly?
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981, together with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn, for their work in laser spectroscopy. Schawlow's work in atomic physics contributed significantly to the development of the laser, a device that generates coherent light, and has had a major impact on many fields, including medicine, manufacturing, and communications.
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