Theodore Maiman
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 17 years ago |
Date of birth | July 11,1927 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Los Angeles |
California | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 5,2007 |
Died | Vancouver |
Canada | |
Parents | Abraham Maiman |
Rose Abramson | |
Job | Physicist |
Electrical engineer | |
Education | Stanford University |
University of Colorado Boulder | |
Columbia University | |
Books | The laser odyssey |
The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman | |
Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics |
Japan Prize | |
Stuart Ballantine Medal | |
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Known for | Inventing the laser |
Field | Physics, electrical engineering |
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ID | 1397586 |
Theodore Maiman Life story
Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960.