Oral history interview with Lawrence Goldmuntz, 1983 October 21.

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Oral history interview with Lawrence Goldmuntz, 1983 October 21.

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This interview deals with Technical Research Group, Inc. (TRG) in the decade ca. 1953 to ca. 1963, from its founding to its merger into Control Data, concentrating on its laser activities. Goldmuntz was company president during those years. Founding and early contracts; TRG's quantum electronics program; Gordon Gould and the ARPA laser R&D contract; other Dept. of Defense contracts. TRG's non-government laser activities; marketing and other company procedures.

Preliminary transcript.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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