Oral history interview with Melvin Lax, 1986 February 6.

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Oral history interview with Melvin Lax, 1986 February 6.

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Lax has worked on laser theory and the theory of laser noise. Discussion of organization of theoretical group at Bell Laboratories; the path by which he was led to do research on fluctuation theory; his knowledge of engineering theory; and aspects of his work on maser noise.

Notes: 5 p.

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 ...

Lax, Melvin J.

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Born 1922. From the description of Oral history interview with Melvin Lax, 1986 February 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81212285 ...