How the laser happened : adventures of a scientist /

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Annotation In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a pioneer in the st...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Townes, Charles H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Townes, Charles H.
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Lasers > History.
Masers > History.
Science and state > United States > History.
Physiciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Lasers > Histoire.
Masers > Histoire.
Politique scientifique et technique > États-Unis > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Lasers & Photonics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Lasers.
Masers.
Physicists.
Science and state.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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