Nicolaas Bloembergen (b. 1920), Dutch-American physicist, shared part of the 1981 Nobel Prize for physics with Arthur Schawlow for contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy. The name was suggested by W. A. Fröger.
Discovered on 16-10-1977 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.