Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1988.

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Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1988.

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Copy of a document entitled "Theory of New Low Noise Amplifier" by Higa, accompanied by a letter to Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project commenting on the papers and briefly describing maser development work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), from which Higa is retired. Also included is a document entitled "A History of Masers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory," also by Higa, which describes work at JPL before and after the Sputnik satellite launch in 1957, including work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on hydrogen masers. File also includes a curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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 ...