Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner：Bloembergen
诺贝尔大师布洛姆伯根自传
My parents， Auke Bloembergen and Sophia Maria Quint， had four sons and two daughters. I am the second child， born on March 11， 1920， in Dordrecht， the Netherlands. My father， a chemical engineer， was an executive in a chemical fertilizer company. My mother， who had an advanced degree to teach French， devoted all her energies to rearing a large family.
我父母，奥克·布洛姆伯根和索菲娅·玛丽亚·昆特，有4个儿子和2个女儿。我是家中第2个孩子，于1920年3月11日生于荷兰的多德雷赫特。我父亲是一位化学工程师，在一个化肥公司做经理。我母亲有一个教授法语的高级学位，她把她所有的精力都用于养育我们这一大家人。
Before I entered grade school， the family moved to Bilthoven， a residential suburb of Utrecht. We were brought up in the Protestant work ethic. At the age of twelve I entered the municipal gymnasium in Utrecht， founded as a Latin school in 1474. Nearly all the teachers held Ph.D. degrees. The rigid curriculum emphasized the humanities： Latin， Greek， French， German， English， Dutch， history and mathematics. My preference for science became evident only in the last years of secondary school， where the basics of physics and chemistry were well taught. The choice of physics was probably based on the fact that I found it the most difficult and challenging subject， and I still do to this day. My maternal grandfather was a high school principal with a Ph.D. in mathematical physics. So there may be some hereditary factor as well. I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
在我上小学之前，我们家搬到了比尔特霍芬，它是乌得勒支的郊区住宅区。我们在新教徒的职业道德氛围下长大。12岁的时候，我进入了乌得勒支的市立高级中学。这所学校是1474年作为拉丁学校建立的。几乎所有的教师都具有博士学位，而且课程设置非常严格，注重人文科学：拉丁文、希腊文、法文、德文、英文、荷兰文、历史和数学。只是在中学后几年，我对科学的偏爱才显现出来，当时学校的物理和化学基础教育非常好。选择物理可能是因为我发现这门功课最难、最具有挑战性。直到现在我仍然这样认为。我的外祖父是数学物理博士，在一所高级中学任校长，所以，也许还有些遗传的因素吧。我对数学与物理之间的联系特感兴趣。居然可以用数学来描述物理现象，真是神秘极了。
Professor L. S. Ornstein taught the undergraduate physics course when I entered the University of Utrecht in 1938. He permitted me and my partner in the undergraduate lab， J. C. Kluyver to skip some lab routines and instead assist a graduate student， G. A. W. Rutgers， in a Ph.D. research project.
在我1938年进入乌得勒支大学上学时，L. S.奥恩斯泰因教授教大学本科物理课。他允许我和我的本科生实验室同伴J. C.克勒伊弗跳过一些常规的实验内容，帮助研究生G. A. W.吕特赫斯搞博士研究课题。
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940， the Hitler regime removed Ornstein from the university in 1941. I made the best possible use of the continental academic system， which relied heavily on independent studies.Just before the Nazis closed the university completely in 1943， I managed to obtain the degree of Phil. Drs.， equivalent to a M.Sc. degree.
1940年5月，德国占领荷兰，1941年希特勒政权把奥恩斯泰因教授赶出了大学。我充分地利用了欧洲大陆的教育体制，它很强调独立学习。就在纳粹1943年将大学彻底关闭之前，我成功地获得了Drs.学位，相当于理科硕士。
I had always harbored plans to do some research for a Ph.D. thesis outside the Netherlands， to broaden my perspective. After the devastation of Europe， the only suitable place in 1945 appeared to be the United States. Three applications netted an acceptance in the graduate school at Harvard University. My father financed the trip and the Dutch government obliged by issuing a valuta permit for the purchase of US＄ 1，850. As my good fortune would have it， my arrival at Harvard occurred six weeks after Purcell， Torrey and Pound had detected nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in condensed matter. Since they were busy writing volumes for the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory series on microwave techniques， I was accepted as a graduate assistant to develop the early NMR apparatus. My thorough Dutch educational background enabled me to quickly profit from lectures by professors there.
我一直暗暗地计划要离开荷兰从事我的博士论文研究，这样可以开阔我的眼界。战后的欧洲毁坏严重，1945年惟一适合的地方似乎就是美国了。我递去了3份申请，哈佛大学研究生院录取了我。父亲资助我的旅费，荷兰政府也特别允许我换了1850美元。我的好运来了，在珀塞尔、托里和庞德在凝聚态物质中检测到核磁共振(NMR)6个月后，我到了哈佛大学。因为他们忙于为麻省理工学院放射实验室撰写有关微波技术的系列丛书，所以我就作为研究生助理，协助他们研发早期的核磁共振仪器。我完整的荷兰教育背景使我很快就能从那里教授们的讲课中获益。
During a vacation trip of a Physics Club I met Deli in the summer of 1948. She had spent the war years in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia， where she was born. She was about to start her premed studies. When I returned to Harvard in 1949， she managed to get on a student hospitality exchange program and traveled after me to the United States on an immigrant ship. I proposed to her the day she arrived and we got married in Amsterdam in 1950. Ever since， she has been a source of light in my life. Her enduring encouragement has contributed immensely to the successes in my further career. After the difficult years as an immigrant wife， raising three children on the modest income， she has found the time and energy to develop her considerable talents as a pianist and artist. We became U.S. citizens in 1958.
1948年夏天，在一次物理俱乐部组织的假日旅行中，我遇到了德利。她出生在印度尼西亚，战争期间她是在印度尼西亚的日本集中营度过的。她就要开始她的医学预科学习。1949年我返回哈佛时，她在学生友好交流计划中设法得到了一个指标，于是乘坐一艘移民船只随后来到了美国。在她到达美国的那一天，我就向她求婚。1950年，我们在阿姆斯特丹结婚了。从那时起，她一直是我生命中的明灯，她恒久的鼓励是我后来事业取得成功的巨大动力。作为一个移民妻子，她用一份不多的收入，抚育3个孩子，度过了那段艰难岁月后，她才有时间和精力去发展她作为钢琴家和艺术家的卓越才能。1958年我们成为美国公民。
Our children are now independent. The older daughter， Antonia， holds M.A. degrees in political science and demography， and works in the Boston area. Our son， Brink， has an M.B.A. degree and is an industrial planner in Oregon. Our younger daughter， Juliana， envisages a career in the financial world. She has interrupted her banking job to obtain an M.B.A. in Philadelphia.
我们的孩子现在都已独立，大女儿安东尼娅拥有政治学和人口统计学的硕士学位，在波士顿地区工作。儿子布林克拥有工商管理硕士学位，在俄勒冈州做工业计划工作。小女儿茱莉安娜打算在金融领域工作。为了在费城获得工商管理硕士学位，她已中断了银行的工作。
Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner：JeanMarie Lehn
诺贝尔大师让-马里·莱恩自传
