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	Gordon Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 — September 16, 2005) was an American physicist and the credited inventor of the laser.
		Gordon Gould was able to trace his ancestry to the first crossing of the Mayflower on his father's side, but he took the most pride in a perhaps mythical ancestor on his mother's side, whom he claimed was a pirate named Wonny LaRue.
		Gould's solution was to excite atoms or molecules through either the use of bright light or atomic-level collisions to produce a population inversion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Gould (698 words)

	Union College
		Gordon Gould '41, the laser pioneer who established a professorship to honor the physics professor who sparked his interest in the physics of light, died on Sept. 16.
		Gould, who coined the ubiquitous term "laser" (for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"), fought a three-decade battle to secure patent rights for the invention he began in 1957 as a graduate student at Columbia University.
		Gould devoted much of his career to research in optics and, in 1973, was a cofounder of an optical communications company named Optelecom, Inc., where he earned further patents before retiring in 1985.
	www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=5631 (487 words)

	Gordon Gould; fought for recognition as developer of laser \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Gordon Gould, who fought for three decades for recognition of his work in the invention of the laser –; and eventually won millions of dollars in royalties – died Sept. 16 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
		Gould was proved right, as various forms of lasers came to be used for communications, surgery, and even precise measurements of the distance between Earth and the moon.
		Gould said the insights for how to build a laser came to him one Saturday night in November 1957, and that by the end of the weekend he had written down his ideas and sketches in a notebook, predicting that the device could heat something to extremely high temperatures in a fraction of a second.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050925/news_mz1j25gould.html (741 words)

	Gordon Gould, physicist, inventor of laser; at 85 - The Boston Globe
		Gordon Gould, a prolific physicist who was widely credited with inventing the laser in 1957, then spent 30 years persuading federal courts to uphold his patents, died Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
		Gould was a physics graduate student at Columbia University in November 1957, living off his wife's income while finishing his thesis, when he conceived the laser in a late-night flash of inspiration.
		Gordon Gould was born in Manhattan on July 17, 1920, the son of a Scholastic magazine editor and a mother who stoked his interest in invention through gifts of Erector sets and similar toys.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/09/22/gordon_gould_physicist_inventor_of_laser_at_85?mode=PF (789 words)

	The Patent Dispute Regarding the Invention of the Laser
		Gordon Gould was also intrigued by the idea of the laser [Bromberg, 1991].
		Gould desperately fought the decision with appeals and with court cases both in America and internationally ["A Laser," 1977].
		Gould's quest for the patent on the laser was long and difficult.
	elvis.engr.wisc.edu /uer/uer97/author5/content.html (1127 words)

	Laser technology pioneer Gordon Gould dies - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gordon Gould, a pioneer in laser technology who coined the word "laser" and won a decades-long struggle to secure patent rights on the most commonly used type, has died at age 85.
		Gould, a resident of Sag Harbor, on Long Island, once said that his first ideas for the laser came suddenly to him in 1957.
		Gould invented two of the most important kinds of lasers, the gas discharge laser and the optically pumped laser, which are in machines with uses as varied as supermarket checkout counters and eye operations.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/09/19/laser_technology_pioneer_gordon_gould_dies (492 words)

	Patent Pending
		Gould dubbed the process light amplification by stimu-lated emission of radiation, or laser, and he knew -- he knew, no question -- that this was the invention he'd been preparing himself for all along.
		Gould's patents directly affect some half-billion dollars in annual sales of lasers; ironically, had they been granted 30 years ago these patents would have expired while the industry was still tiny, and would have captured only a fraction of their current revenue.
		Gordon Gould, for now, lives in a small, gray ranch house situated by a creek in Virginia's Northern Neck, two and a half hours from Washington, D.C. The place is modest because that's the way Gould likes to live, not because he can't afford better.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19890301/5568.html (4702 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Gordon Gould was born in New York City in 1920.
		Later, Gould himself would conceive and design one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century: the laser.
		By the end of that weekend, Gould had designed a device that he predicted could heat a substance to the temperature of the sun in a millionth of a second.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/gould.html (321 words)

	Gordon Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gould would conceive and design one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century, the laser.
		Gould had designed a device that he hoped could heat a substance to the temperature of the sun in a millionth of a second.
		Gould's laser technology was already being used in many practical applications, including welding, scanning and surgery.
	mediatheek.thinkquest.nl /~ll160/contents/inventors/gordongould.htm (191 words)

	The race to make the first laser
		Gould wrote down his laser ideas -- including a definition of "laser" as Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation -- in late 1957, and had them notarized by a candy store owner named Jack Gould (no relation) in what he hoped was the first step to getting a patent.
		Gould's notebooks and their offspring -- his patent applications and proposals for research funding -- had only minimal circulation, and essentially no impact on most of the scientific world.
		Gould made less-important but nonetheless solid contributions in lasers and fiber optics, but by the mid-1970s he had become almost invisible in the laser world.
	www.sff.net /people/Jeff.Hecht/Pioneers.html (1871 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Science \| Gordon Gould
		Gould was brought up in Manhattan by a father who was an editor at Scholastic magazine, and by his mechanically gifted mother.
		Gould left Columbia to create a laser model for a defence contractor, but his failed security clearance spoiled his chances there.
		Gould was divorced twice and is survived by his third wife.
	www.guardian.co.uk /science/story/0,3605,1579921,00.html (660 words)

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		The patent examiner's decision on this issue was that Gould's record did not, in fact, properly represent the invention, because his proof of prior conception was incomplete.
		The other was Gould's decision to trade a half-interest in his pending laser patent to the Refac Technology Developmen Corp., a New York patent-licensing firm headed by Eugene Lang, in exchange for absorbing his legal costs.
		Gould lives comfortably on his share of the royalties, far more than he would have received if his first American patent had been issued promptly.
	www.virtualschool.edu /mon/ElectronicFrontier/LaserPatentWars (1467 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Gordon Gould coined the word laser and patented optically pumped and discharge excited laser amplifiers now used in most industrial, commercial, and medical applications of lasers.
		Gould has said that his first ideas for the laser 'came in a flash' one night in 1957.
		Since Gould's original patent application contained a number of different inventions it was put through a series of five separate interferences by the Patent Office.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/69.html (324 words)

	Nick Taylor - Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War
		All the paper in all the cases and other matters that focused on Gould – the depositions, the transcripts, the Patent Office pleadings, the files compiled on him by the FBI and branches of the military – had accounted for the killing of a hundred forests.
		Gould couldn’t count the times his claims had been greeted by the sound of laughter.
		Gould settled in his chair, thinking that if he won this thing, it would not only fill his pockets and bring his long ordeal to an end, it would force the keepers of the grail to rewrite their scientific histories.
	www.nicktaylor.us /work2.htm (1627 words)

	Gordon Gould in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		'Gordon Gould' (born July 17, 1920 - died September 16, 2005) was an American physicist and the credited inventor of the laser.
		In 1977 he won a protracted legal battle over patent rights, winning lucrative patents for optically-pumped laser amplifiers, which are the most widely used lasers, the kind one finds in grocery scanners and CD players, for instance, and a range of laser applications.
		Controvery over who was the true inventor of the laser, fueled by Townes and Schawlow's subsequent claims, followed Gould his whole life, but he ultimately prevailed in his legal struggles and was found in a court of law, after many challenges and setbacks, to be the rightful owner of the patent(s).
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Gordon_Gould (688 words)

	Article - L.A.S.E.R. - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved
		Gordon Gould was the first person to use the word "laser".
		Gould was a doctoral student at Columbia University under Charles Townes, the inventor of the maser.
		Gordon Gould was inspired to build his optical laser starting in 1958.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=1160_0_1_0_M (617 words)

	Gordon Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Gordon_Gould.html (341 words)

	Laser Focus World - Gordon Gould, a laser pioneer, dies at 85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gould then waged a long legal battle that culminated in the granting of a laser patent in 1977, and a more important patent in 1987.
		Gould himself said that he might have made $100,000 if his initial patent application had been granted; instead, he earned on the order of $30 million.
		Central to Gould's concept was the idea of a resonator to enhance coherent amplification of light; also important were the several ways he thought of to excite the laser media, including electrical discharge in gas and optical pumping.
	lfw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=237186&p=12 (342 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Laser Inventor Gordon Gould
		Gordon Gould was a graduate-school dropout and an obscure science lab research drone.
		When Gould was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991, it was as much for perseverance in asserting the validity of his patents for lasers as for the basic invention itself.
		Gould, however, was barred from the project because in the 1940s his first wife had dragged him to Marxist group meetings.
	www.investors.com /editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=21&issue=20060216&rss=1 (1251 words)

	Patent Fending
		Gould had been a graduate student at Columbia University when he first developed his blueprint for the laser.
		"Gordon was not a social person," notes Samuel, "nor was he a member of any organization that had an interest in his success." Based on that 1977 patent, Samuel and Gould gained enough financial backing to help start Patlex Corp., which they took public.
		In 1987, Gould finally won his first significant cases, successfully arguing that his patents had been infringed upon by perhaps 90% of the laser industry in the United States at that time.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19971201/1374.html (1202 words)

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	Salón Hogar - El Láser
		Gordon Gould entra en escena, Gould era estudiante licenciado de la facultad de física en la universidad de Columbia, donde Townes ejercía de catedrático.
		Gould asegura que admitió, antes de que lo hicieran otros pioneros del láser, que seria posible conseguir densidades de energía hasta entonces inalcanzables.
		Gould, además de no solicitar inmediatamente la patente correspondiente, cometió el error de no publicar sus planes para la construcción de un láser en alguna revista científica, que es lo que suelen hacer los científicos con el fin de que sus colegas reconozcan sus ideas originales.
	www.salonhogar.com /ciencias/tecnologia/ellaser/lacarrera.htm (840 words)

	BOOK REVIEW
		Gordon deserved a Nobel Prize, for inventing the laser, but had to be satisfied with becoming a multi-millionaire when he finally won his thirty-year-long patent war in 1988.
		Gordon did receive a master's degree from Yale, and embarked on a Ph.D. program, but World War II had begun by now, and in April 1944, he went to work for the Manhattan Project.
		Gordon was successful in obtaining grant support for some time through his friend and former fellow-graduate student at Columbia, the late Peter Franken.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/gould_review.htm (2325 words)

	Inventor of the laser dies at 85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While the name Gordon Gould will probably mean nothing to most of you, you will recognise the invention he has done.
		Gordon Gould is the man behind the laser, the beam you can find inside your CD or DVD burner and player.
		Gould died at the age of 85, and he left a lot of money due the payments of royalties by those enormous amount of companies who use lasers.
	www.cdfreaks.com /news2.php?ID=12422 (191 words)

	Laser Pioneer Gordon Gould Dies at 85
		Gordon Gould, 85, a physicist who spent decades trying to prove he invented the laser while in graduate school and who eventually received several key patents for laser technology, died Sept. 16 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
		Gordon Gould was awarded a patent for the gas discharge laser in 1987, ending a 30-year legal battle.
		Gould was a 1941 physics graduate of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and received a master's degree in physics from Yale University in 1943.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901687.html?nic_code=patents_nondrug (595 words)

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