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Theodore Harold Maiman.

Theodore Harold Maiman.
BornJuly 11 1927(1927--)
Los Angeles, California
DiedMay 5 2007 (aged 81)
Vancouver, British Columbia
ResidenceUSA
CitizenshipAmerican
FieldPhysics
InstitutionsHughes Research Laboratories
Quantatron
Alma materUniversity of Colorado
Known forLaser
Notable prizesWolf Prize in Physics (1983)
Japan Prize (1987)
Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927 - May 5, 2007) was an American physicist who made the first working laser. [1] Maiman received the Japan Prize in 1987. He was the author of a book titled The Laser Odyssey.

Life and career

Maiman was born in Los Angeles.[2]In his teens, Maiman earned college money by repairing electrical appliances and radios. He attended the University of Colorado and received a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949 then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where he received an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1951 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1955.

Maiman's laser, based on a synthetic ruby crystal grown by Dr. Ralph L. Hutcheson, was first operated on 16 May 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. After a protracted legal battle, some key laser patents were awarded to Gordon Gould.

After leaving Hughes, Maiman joined Quantatron where he was in charge of the laser activities. In 1962 Maiman became president of the newly formed Korad Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Carbide. Union Carbide bought the laser assets owned by Quantatron. Korad was devoted to the research, development, and manufacture of lasers. He formed Maiman Associates in 1968 after selling Korad to Union Carbide Corporation

Due to his work on the laser, he was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize[3] and was given membership in both the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He received the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in 1966. He was the recipient of the 1983/84 Wolf Prize in Physics, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame that same year.

Maiman died from systemic mastocytosis on May 5, 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lived with his wife.[4]

References

1. ^ U.S. Patent 3,353,115 
2. ^ Johnson, John, Jr. (May 11, 2007). Theodore H. Maiman, 79; scientist built the first laser. Los Angeles Times
3. ^ Douglas Martin. "Maiman built world's first laser", New York Times, 2007-05-11. 
4. ^ Douglas, Martin (May 11, 2007). Theodore Maiman, 79, Dies; Demonstrated First Laser New York Times

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Chien-Shiung Wu (1978) • George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979) • Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980) • Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981) • Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982) • Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983) • Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozieres (1984) • Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986) • Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987) • Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990) • Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991) • Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (1992) • Benot Mandelbrot (1993) • Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994) • John Wheeler (1997) • Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998) • Dan Shechtman (1999) • Raymond Davis Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000) • Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002) • Robert Brout / Franois Englert / Peter Higgs (2004) • Daniel Kleppner (2005) • Albert Fert / Peter Grnberg (2006)
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