Roy J. Glauber was born on 1 September 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Cynthia Rich. He died on 26 December 2018 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
He was an American physicist who was co-laureate of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for his pioneering work in quantum optics. The other laureates were John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch for their achievements in precision spectroscopy.
