Oral history interview with Irenee J. D'Haenens, 1985 February 5.

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Oral history interview with Irenee J. D'Haenens, 1985 February 5.

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Harold Lyon's Atomic Physics group at Hughes in the mid-1950s; Theodore Maiman's researches in the group; electron cyclotron-resonance for the generation of millimeter waves; improved portable ruby masers. Maiman's knowledge of I. Weider's proposals for optically pumped solid-state masers; Maiman's view of the trustworthiness of Weider's quantum-efficiency measurements. The effect upon Maiman of the Schawanga Lodge conference. The budget for Maiman's laser experiments; details of the experimental work.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Hughes Aircraft Company. Research Laboratories

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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. ...

D'Haenens, Irenee J., 1934-

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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 ...