Norman Tolk

Dr. Norman Henry Tolk (born January 9, 1938) is an American physicist and musician.

Life

Tolk was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho.[1] He grew up in a Mormon and Protestant family.[2] He majored in physics at Harvard College, graduating in 1960, and earned his Ph.D. in atomic physics from Columbia University in 1966.[1] Currently he is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University.[1] For all his life Tolk has been a Mormon.[2]

Physics

Ever since second grade, Tolk wanted to become a physicist.[2] After earning his degrees at Columbia and Harvard, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He brought the Free-electron laser to Vanderbilt. In 1987, he got the Alexander von Humboldt Award and as a result researched at Free University of Berlin.[1]

gollark: Truly it hides deep secrets.
gollark: There are multiple gemshards in the picture?
gollark: ∆π out of ∞.
gollark: ∞/0
gollark: It *looks like* just an internal representation of a dragon which TJ09 probably printed out for debugging but kept in.

References
  1. "Norman H. Tolk". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  2. "Hi I'm Norman". Mormon.org. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
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