Oral history interview with John Goldsborough, 1984 January 18.

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Oral history interview with John Goldsborough, 1984 January 18.

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Goldsborough's research on continuous wave (cw) ion lasers leads to Spectra-Physics model 140; work atmosphere, organizational structure, and financial fortunes of Spectra-Physics (Earl Bell, Arnold Bloom); relations with Hughes Aircraft (William B. Bridges). Goldsborough replaces Earl Bell as manager of theoretical research. Founders of Coherent Radiation; their backgrounds. Spectra-Physics' interest in CO2 laser research; the argon laser; water-cooled ion lasers, 1968; records of technical work at Spectra-Physics, including his own.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Goldsborough, John Paul, 1934-

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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 ...