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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.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Maiman,+Theodore+Harold
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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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