Response to the Laser History Project Survey, 1960-1986.

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Response to the Laser History Project Survey, 1960-1986.

Correspondence with Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project, in answer to the survey questionnaire and describing his work with radar during World War II, the Distant Early Warning line (DEW), microwave resonance and paramagnetic relaxation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, military work in radar and radar astronomy, and his work in masers arising from his research on paramagnetic relaxation. File also includes short autobiography, curriculum vitae and publication list.

19 pp.

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