Beam: The Race to Make the Laser by Jeff Hecht

Beam: The Race to Make the Laser

Jeff Hecht

288 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

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In 1954, Charles Townes invented the laser's microwave cousin, the maser. The next logical step was to extend the same physical principles to the shorter wavelengths of light, but the idea did not catch fire until October 1957, when Townes asked G...

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