How the Laser Happened : Adventures of a Scientist.
Title:
How the Laser Happened : Adventures of a Scientist.
Author:
Townes, Charles H.
ISBN:
9780198028635
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (180 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1 THE LIGHT THAT SHINES STRAIGHT -- 2 PHYSICS, FURMAN, MOLECULES, AND ME -- 3 BELL LABS AND RADAR, A (FORTUNATE) DETOUR FROM PHYSICS -- 4 COLUMBIA TO FRANKLIN PARK AND BEYOND -- 5 MASER EXCITEMENT-AND A TIME FOR REFLECTION -- 6 FROM MASER TO LASER -- 7 THE PATENT GAME -- 8 ON MOON DUST, AND OTHER SCIENCE ADVICE -- 9 THE RAINS OF ORION -- 10 GLANCES BOTH BACKWARD AND FORWARD -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Charles Townes, a Nobel laureate, is one of the leading figures in twentieth-century physics, inventor of the maser and the laser, and one of the pioneers in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This is the memoir of a life devoted to scientific research.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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