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    Theodore Harold Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's...
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    gain medium. The first working laser was a ruby laser made by Theodore H. "Ted" Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories on May 16, 1960. Ruby lasers produce...
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    physicist and spectroscopist Theodore Maiman (1927–2007), American engineer and physicist, inventor of the laser Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born 1930),...
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  • 2018, the anniversary of the day in 1960 when engineer and physicist Theodore Maiman successfully fired the first laser. The International Day of Light...
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  • Maiman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ohad Maiman (born 1977), Israeli photographer Theodore Harold Maiman (1927–2007), American...
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    Leonard Schawlow that led to the invention of the laser in 1960 by Theodore Maiman. When the coherent optical oscillator was first imagined in 1957, it...
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    stimulated emission of radiation. The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles H...
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  • Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research...
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    process) to be ten to twenty times less than in the natural gemstones. Theodore Maiman says that "because of the low chromium level in these crystals they...
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  • (programming language) Gordon Gould (1920–2005), U.S. – Laser, see also Theodore Maiman Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), UK – ship's hull and rigging Boris...
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