Bibliograph

The man who invented the laser, the genius of Theodore H. Maiman, Edwin Brit Wyckoff

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Label

The man who invented the laser, the genius of Theodore H. Maiman, Edwin Brit Wyckoff

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man who invented the laser

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Edwin Brit Wyckoff

Series statement

Genius inventors and their great ideas

Sub title

the genius of Theodore H. Maiman

Summary

Maiman was a graduate of the University of Colorado, which awarded him a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949. Later, he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1955 from Stanford University and began work at the Hughes Research Laboratory (HRL). There he concentrated on creating a device capable of converting mixed frequency electromagnetic radiation into highly amplified and coherent light of discrete frequency. Maiman later found that the accepted calculations of the fluorescence quantum efficiency of ruby were wrong and that the material could be used for his research. His persistence with ruby eventually paid off, for on May 16, 1960, the device he built using it became the world's first operable laser

Target audience

juvenile

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