Oral history interview with Alan D. White, 1986 April 30.

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Oral history interview with Alan D. White, 1986 April 30.

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Narrative account of discovery of the visible red HeNe laser in the Bell Laboratories Exploratory Development Group under Signal Corps contract, contributions of co-workers and supervisors, White's work on the arc lamp for cw pumping, collaboration with Dane Rigden, 1962, knowledge of Javan-Bennett-Herriott infrared laser work and work of Spectra-Physics group, equipment and funding, atmosphere in the laboratory following the discovery. Also prominently mentioned is: Eugene I. Gordon.

Notes, 9 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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