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  Maiman, Theodore Harold - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maiman, Theodore Harold
Maiman was born in Los Angeles and studied at Columbia and Stanford universities.
In 1955, Maiman began improving the maser (microwave amplifier), first designed in 1953 by US physicist Charles Townes.
Maiman's apparatus produced pulses; the first continuous-beam laser was made in 1961 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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 Theodore Harold Maiman
In 1960 Maiman built and patented the prototype of the ruby laser.
The amplified light of the laser has many uses in industry, surgery, military range finders, as well as bar code scanners and compact disk players.
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