biography
| name: |
Maiman, Theodore H(arold)
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pronunciation:
[miyman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He studied physics at Colorado and Stanford universities, and joined Hughes Research Laboratories, Miami, in 1955. He was much interested in the maser, devised in 1953 to produce coherent microwave radiation. He improved its design, and by 1960 devised the first working laser, which gave coherent visible light. From the 1960s he founded companies to develop laser devices, and in 1977 joined TRW Electronics of California. |
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