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How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist
How the Laser Happened Adventures of a Scientist
Author: Charles H. Townes
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 study of gas clouds in galaxies and around stars. Throughout...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195153767
ISBN-10: 0195153766
Publication Date: 1/31/2002
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is an interesting story written by the guy (Charles Townes) who invented the laser and maser. It tells how he ended up inventing the laser and has lots of good history about physics.


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