Oral history interview with Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch, 1984 January 19.

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Oral history interview with Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch, 1984 January 19.

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Laser research at the Universität Heidelberg, 1965-1970. Thesis research. Collaboration on a commercial laser. Hänsch's laboratory style. Frustrations of doing spectroscopy with the early, non-tunable lasers. Laser research at Stanford University. Comparison of resources at Heidelberg and Stanford. The high-resolution, tunable laser of 1971 and the research program it engendered. Also prominently mentioned are: Mark Levenson, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Isa Shahin, Peter Smith, Peter Toschek; and American Physical Society.

Transcript, 18 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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