Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

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Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622730

Maser research at Hughes Research Laboratories. The laser; Theodore H. Maiman's work; building a laser rangefinder; Q-switching; stimulated Raman scattering; other laser research. The impact of Sputnik and the Vietnam war on Hughes Aircraft Co. Procedures for selecting research projects. Also prominently mentioned are: Doug Beddenhagen, William B. Bridges, Malcolm Currie, Francis E. Goodwin, Robert Willis Hellwarth, Pat Hyland, Harold Lyons, Fred McClung, R. C. Pastor, Eugene P. Peressini, Arthur Leonard Schawlow; Aerojet-General Corporation, Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes, 1 session.Transcript: 40 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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