Response to Laser History Project Survey, ca. 1986.

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Response to Laser History Project Survey, ca. 1986.

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A letter to Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project, briefly describing Weber's background and accomplishments as initiator of the maser principle. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications.

7 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Weber, J. (Joseph), 1919-2000

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Joseph Weber (1919-2000). From the description of Oral history interview with Joseph Weber, 1983 April 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81003959 Joseph Weber was born in Paterson, N. J. in 1919. After working on radar technology in the Navy during World War II, he joined the University of Maryland as a professor of electrical engineering in 1948. He was the first scientist to work out the theoretical concept of a maser (a proto-laser), though he did not build one. He later ...

Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...