Glauber also offered Science A-29, then called “Waves,” at the Harvard Extension School.

In addition to fusing his leadership in the field with a passion for teaching, Glauber also instilled the value of learning in his two children, they said.

“It all comes back to education,” said his son Jeffrey M. Glauber, who remembers his father coming home full of excitement from teaching his Core class. “He lives and breathes it, and I hope to pass down what he taught us about the importance of education.”

Although Glauber’s daughter, Valerie G. Fleishman ’92, said she never understood the scribbles on her father’s chalkboard, she did understand the value her father placed on education.

“I think that he’s one of those unique people who found a passion in his work and it’s what he enjoys, teaching and doing physics,” she said.

Glauber joins 42 current and former Harvard faculty members who have also been awarded Nobel Prizes, according to the Harvard website.

The last professor to receive this honor was McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997.

—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.