Oral history interview with Eric J. Woodbury, 1985 November 14.

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Oral history interview with Eric J. Woodbury, 1985 November 14.

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Narrative account of Woodbury's work at Hughes Aircraft Company, 1951-1981; focusses on the design and development of the laser rangefinder in F.R. Carver's group, changes in the company structure that fostered the project, George Smith's Research Laboratory, contract work with Fred McClung for Frankford Arsenal and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); Air Force contract work with W.K. Ng leading to discovery of stimulated Raman scattering, Second and Third International Quantum Electronics Conferences (1961, 1963); the first Mark II Colidar and other applications, licensing arrangements and production.

Notes, 13 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Woodbury was born in 1925. From the description of Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798105 Born 1925. From the description of Oral history interview with Eric J. Woodbury, 1985 November 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80093446 ...

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 ...