>> Bell Labs gave us the Laser
>1960 Laser
Working at Hughes Research Laboratories, physicist Theodore H. Maiman creates the first laser.
That is not what I understand...
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The invention of the laser, which stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, can be dated to 1958 with the publication of the scientific paper, Infrared and Optical Masers, by Arthur L. Schawlow, then a Bell Labs researcher, and Charles H. Townes, a consultant to Bell Labs. That paper, published in Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society, launched a new scientific field and opened the door to a multibillion-dollar industry.
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and from an IEEE Story:
Several more-or-less traditional historical studies of these events are available, including one recently written by Townes, himself the Nobel Prize winner who is given credit for both the first Maser and for the invention, with Arthur Schawlow, of the optical maser, now universally known as the Laser.
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I actually wrote a high school English paper on this back in 1974 or 1975 which is where I learned I couldn't write fiction worth a damn but I was pretty good writing about science.
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In 1958, Townes and Arthur Schawlow theorized about a visible laser, an invention that would use infrared and/or visible spectrum light.
Ted Maiman invented the ruby laser (light laser) considered to be the first successful optical laser. Many historians claim that Maiman invented the first optical laser, however, there is some controversy.
Gordon Gould was the first person to use the word "laser". There is good reason to believe that Gordon Gould made the first light laser. Gould was a doctoral student at Columbia University under Charles Townes, the inventor of the maser. Gould was inspired to build his optical laser starting in 1958. He failed to file for a patent his invention until 1959. As a result, Gould's patent was refused and his technolgy was exploited by others. It took until 1977 for Gould to finally win his patent war and recieve his first patent for the laser.
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