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= Herbert Zeiger = Herbert J. Zeiger (b. 16 March 1925 in the Bronx, New York City, United States; d. 14 January 2011 ) was an American physicist and co-developer of the first maser.

He lived most recently in Newton, Mass., and then in Dedham, Mass. He is buried outside Boston, in West Roxbury.

Between 1953-54, he worked alongside Charles H. Townes and James P. Gordon, who was then a PhD student of Townes, at Columbia University to develop the first maser.

In 1966, Zeiger became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He and Gordon were the recipients of the first Charles Hard Townes Award in 1981, "For [their] contributions to the successful operations of the first quantum-electronics device, the ammonia maser".

He was married to Hanna Bloom and had three children: Joel Zeiger, Susan Zeiger Katz, and Judith Zeiger McNulty.