Melvin Lax | |
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| Born | March 8, 1922 |
| Died | December 8, 2002 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Willis Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Solid-State and Molecular physics; Laser science and Quantum Optics; Stochastic processes in Chemical physics |
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Melvin Lax (March 8, 1922 – December 8, 2002) was a distinguished professor of physics at City College of New York[1][2] and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983,[3] and notable for his contributions to research of random processes in physics.[4] He was the chairman of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Labs from 1962 to 1964.[3] He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America.[3]