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Science & Medicine

Valentin Fabrikant

Who

Valentin Fabrikant · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; early theoretical work on stimulated emission and amplification of light

When

1907, Tarashcha, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1991, Moscow, Russia

Where

Soviet Union (Russia · Ukraine)

Biography

Valentin Fabrikant is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; early theoretical work on stimulated emission and amplification of light

How & why

Valentin Fabrikant was a Soviet physicist who, in the late 1930s and 1940s, developed early theoretical work on the stimulated emission and amplification of light, anticipating principles later realized in the maser and laser. His 1951 patent application described light amplification by stimulated emission. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; early theoretical work on stimulated emission and amplification of light

1907

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics