Theodore Maiman
Theodore Maiman · Science & Medicine
Physicist; built the first working laser
1927, Los Angeles, California, United States — 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
United States (Hughes Research Laboratories, California)
Theodore Maiman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; built the first working laser
Maiman, a physicist and engineer, built and fired the first working laser on 16 May 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories, using a synthetic ruby crystal to produce a coherent pulse of red light after many had thought a solid-state laser impractical. The invention seeded technologies from fibre-optic communications and barcode scanners to surgery and manufacturing. Maiman came from a Jewish family and said he was a descendant of the medieval sage Maimonides.
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Physicist; built the first working laser
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
