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Landauer, Rolf William, 1927-1999. Oral history interview with Rolf William Landauer, 1984 October 17.

Title: Oral history interview with Rolf William Landauer, 1984 October 17.

The microwave spectroscopy group under William V. Smith in the late 1950s. Research directions and management attitudes in the early years of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The Sorokin-Stevenson 4-level masers. The invention of the semiconductor laser in 1962. Research on optical parametric oscillators. Also prominently mentioned are: Bill Dumke, William S. Franklin, Seymour Keller, James Arthur Krumhansl, Gordon Lasher, Marshall I. Nathan, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, W. V. Smith, Peter P. Sorokin, Mirek Stevenson, Charles Hard Townes, John Von Neumann, Weinrich; Bell Telephone Laboratories, and International Business Machines Corporation.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette, 1 session.Transcript: 20 p.

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Landauer, Rolf William, 1927-1999. Response to the Laser History Project Survey, ca. 1962-ca. 1984.

Title: Response to the Laser History Project Survey, ca. 1962-ca. 1984.

Copies of several published papers, with Landauer's extensive, typewritten comments on their significance to laser research; research notes dealing with nonlinear effects in the optical frequency range, injection lasers, and parametric interactions research at International Business Machines Research; and a short biography and list of publications.

ArchivalResource: 32 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77786877 View