Abstract
We recount the life, work, and legacy of the theoretical physicist Roy
Glauber (1925-2018). Admitted to Harvard at age sixteen, called upon to
participate in the Manhattan Project at age eighteen, and appointed to
the Harvard Physics faculty at age twenty-nine, Glauber is credited with
seminal contributions to three separate fields of physics: nuclear
scattering, statistical physics, and foundational work in quantum
optics, which earned him the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. Over decades,
Glauber was also a dedicated teacher of high-school, college, and
graduate students. His pedagogical gifts are reflected in his lucid
papers that read as if they were written yesterday.