Oral history interview with Gary Delane Boyd, 1986 May 1.

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Oral history interview with Gary Delane Boyd, 1986 May 1.

Joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1959. Collaboration with John H. Sanders; initial motivation to study curved end-mirrors for laser resonators; interactions with Willard D. Lewis and James Power Gordon; demonstration of curved mirrors at March 1961 Berkeley conference.

1 session, no tape or transcript.Notes: 3 p.

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