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<center><wz tip="Homeroom President 1; Student Council 3; Wrestling 1,2,3,4; Orchestra 1; Key Club 4; Golf Team 2; Canon Staff 3,4. Favorite Memory-First lunch. Pet Peeve-Third lunch. Noted for-His wresling.">[[File:BenMollow-young.jpg|200px|right]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Homeroom President 1; Student Council 3; Wrestling 1,2,3,4; Orchestra 1; Key Club 4; Golf Team 2; Canon Staff 3,4. Favorite Memory-First lunch. Pet Peeve-Third lunch. Noted for-His wresling.">[[File:BenMollow-young.jpg|200px|right]]</wz></center> |
Wit now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.
Benjamin Mollow is a theoretical physicist, known for the eponymous triplet observed in the strong-driving regime of resonance fluorescence. Since this object (the Mollow triplet) is one of the most fascinating quantum-optical systems that we know of—the drosophila of quantum optics as well as a treasure trove of results, such as leapfrog processes—we naturally have much deference for his father, who was the first to derive its spectral shape exactly, in a fight against the Rochester school.
The character also looks very interesting. Comments from his students at UMass Boston also paint a dramatic picture (e.g., "Beware the days he wears his jogging outfit...he tends to wear no shirt underneath and has the zipper halfway down...") His webpage is a model of conciseness (?!) with his triplet as a profile picture. The latter is notoriously difficult to find. The picture displayed above comes from a colorized version from some heritage website (copy) also adding elements to the legend ("Noted for his wrestling").