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Biography of Theodore Harold Maiman
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Since the late 1950s, one of the most contested issues in the science community has been that of whom to credit with the invention of the light amplifier, or laser. Designs for the laser were submitted by several prominent physicists, and many others...


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Maiman, Theodore Harold
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American physicist (born July 11, 1927 , Los Angeles, Calif.—died May 5, 2007, Vancouver, B.C.) constructed the first laser, a device that produces monochromatic coherent light, or light in which the rays are all of the same wavelength and...
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1927- American physicist whose design improvements of Charles Townes's solid-state maser greatly increased its utility. He constructed and patented the first working laser in 1960 while at Hughes Research Laboratories. Maiman left Hughes and...
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Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927 - May 5, 2007) was an American physicist who made the first working laser. [1] Maiman received the Japan Prize in 1987. He was the author of a book titled The Laser...


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The Washington Post
Theodore Maiman; Built 1st Working U.S. Laser
05/10/2007: 936 words, approx. 3 pages
Theodore H. Maiman, 79, a physicist who built the first operational laser in the United States and promoted its many medical applications after initial public concern that he created a "death ray," died May 5 at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia. He had...
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The Independent - London
THE ODORE MAIMAN ; Physicist who built the first laser
05/09/2007: 961 words, approx. 3 pages
Theodore Maiman launched the laser age by demonstrating the world's first laser on 16 May 1960. Other groups had already started trying to build lasers when Maiman decided to tackle the problem in mid-1959. He owed his quick success to a particularly elegant...
 


 

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