Oral history interview with Harold Mirels, 1985 January 31.

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Oral history interview with Harold Mirels, 1985 January 31.

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Mirels' work at Aerospace Corporation during the 1960s: CO2 gas dynamic laser (Don Spencer of Aeronautical Heat Transfer Group, Joseph Logan, Director of Aerodynamics and Propulsion Lab); close connections with Ted Jacobs of the Aerospace Chemical Kinetics group leads to their joining forces on demonstrating the CW Chemical Laser (Logan, Richard Hartunian, Walter R. Warren). Mirels' group as a science center with only 20% of its effort going to the Air Force; comments on funding; the HF Laser.

Notes, 6 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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 ...

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