Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.

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Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.

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Eight-page description of Brewer's work at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles; and his collaboration with Townes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications. Recipients were asked to discuss their education, their activities preceding their involvement with lasers, their work during the Second World War, their entry into the field of lasers, their scientific achievements, their work as laboratory administratiors, their work in the laser industry, and their work as journal editors or society officers.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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