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To: Pink Minion who wrote (10778)	11/13/2002 12:09:24 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 10921

interesting. Check the hall of fame on that site and search for laser authorsden.com You searched for "laser": Gordon Gould, Laser Optically Pumped Laser Amplifiers; Light Amplifiers Employing Collisions to Produce a Population Inversion Gordon Gould coined the word laser and patented optically pumped and d . . . . Theodore Harold Maiman, Laser Ruby Laser Systems Physicist Theodore Harold Maiman invented the first operable laser. While employed at . . . . Arthur Schawlow, Laser Masers and Maser Communications System Arthur L. Schawlow was co-inventor of the laser. He worked with Charle . . . . Charles Hard Townes, Laser Production of Electromagnetic Energy; Masers and Maser Communications System Charles Townes' invention of the maser, a device that amplifies electr . . . . It is one thing to "invent" something on paper or propose an idea and then another to make something work well. Einstein first proposed stimulated emissions but he already gets enough credit. I guess they are both claiming credit. Reminds me of the invention of the IC which has a similar history. Kirk