Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1985.

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Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1985.

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Correspondence with Joan Bromberg (two letters), director of the Laser History Project, and a lengthy response to the questionnaire, in which Smith discusses his work under George Collins in microwave magnetrons at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, and his similar work at Raytheon and Duke University; his early involvement with laser research at International Business Machines' (IBM) Research Division with Peter Sorokin, Mirek Stevenson, Jack Lankard, and Al Landon; and his role as a laboratory manager at IBM. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications.

24 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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