Oral history interview with Peter Alden Franken, 1985 March 8.

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Oral history interview with Peter Alden Franken, 1985 March 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79617784

First acquaintance with the laser idea in the late 1950s; rejection of Theodore Maiman's paper by Physical Review Letters; Trion Instruments; nonlinear optics researches; clear-air turbulence experiments; role in the Gould patent cases.

Preliminary transcript.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Franken, Peter Alden, (1928-1999)

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Born 1928. From the description of Oral history interview with Peter Alden Franken, 1985 March 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617784 ...

Maiman, Theodore H., 1927-2007

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Theodore H. Maiman (b. July 11, 1927, Los Angeles, CA – d. May 5, 2007, Vancouver, BC) worked as a private consultant in high technology fields. Prior institutional affiliations included TRW Electronics Company and Laser Video Corporation. His research interests included condensed matter physics and lasers. ...

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 ...