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Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the laser

| 1 July 2010

Director’s Corner 1 July 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the laser This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Theodore Maiman’s demonstration of the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratory in 1960. The laser has become so common that what began as an acronym describing a physics phenomenon (LASER for […]