Dr. T. H. Maiman (7/11/27 - 5/5/07)
Posted in physics, stories & anecdotes, tagged invention, laser, ruby on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m currently attending the CLEO/QELS conference in San Jose, CA. Yesterday there was a symposium honoring the late Ted Maiman, who was the first person to successfully build and operate a Laser. After the symposium, I was doing some follow-up reading on Wikipedia and discovered that the timing of this memorial session was very coincidental. [...]
