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Father of the laser passes away June 13, 2007

Posted by Adi Narayan in Awards, Lasers, People.
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Theodore Maiman
(pretty late) Nature has published an Obituary for Theodore Maiman – the man behind the laser. He was the guy who made the first Ruby laser. At the time noone could visualise any use for this device, and so they called it “A solution without a problem”. He passed away on 5 May 2007. Twice nominated for the Nobel, and recipient of many other national and International prizes

Here is a NYTimes article on the same .

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