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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.