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Re: acronym LASER



According to:
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/69.html

"Gould has said that his first ideas for the laser 'came in a flash' one
night in 1957. He wrote these down in a notebook entitled 'Some rough
calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by
Stimulated Emission of Radiation,' the first use of this acronym for the now
familiar name."

Laser also appears in his patent application:
<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=
1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,053,845.WKU.&OS=PN/4,053,845&RS=
PN/4,053,845>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Speicher
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: acronym LASER

Although Theodore Maiman generally receives credit for
constructing the first Laser, it was Gordon Gould of the
Technical Research Group who several years earlier, in 1957, was
first to use the acronym. While the stories of the LOSER acronym
are cute, I believe they only started several years after the
first patent applications were already processed.
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