Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1983 May 19.

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Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1983 May 19.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84584542

T.H. Maiman's work on the ruby laser. Brief remarks on Hellwarth's invention of Q-switching and on the discovery and interpretation of the stimulated Raman effect.

Notes, 5 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Maiman, Theodore H., 1927-2007

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Theodore H. Maiman (b. July 11, 1927, Los Angeles, CA – d. May 5, 2007, Vancouver, BC) worked as a private consultant in high technology fields. Prior institutional affiliations included TRW Electronics Company and Laser Video Corporation. His research interests included condensed matter physics and lasers. ...

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-

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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 ...