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Fifty years ago Sunday, a Hughes Labs researcher named Theodore Maiman changed the world. That day, Maiman became the first person on Earth to build a working laser, something that colleagues at a ...

Theodore Maiman, who built the first working laser, passed away on 5 May aged 79. Maiman made his breakthrough in 1960 by generating pulses of coherent light from a fingertip-sized lump of ruby ...

Theodore H. Maiman, 79, a physicist who built the first operational laser in the United States and promoted its many medical applications after initial public concern that he created a "death ray," ...

Fifty years ago today, a little-known scientist working in an underfunded lab in California set off a scientific and technological revolution. On 16 May 1960, Theodore Maiman and his assistant Irnee d ...

Laser technology was celebrated with a rare firing of the first working laser at a conference in Vancouver, Canada, last weekend honouring its inventor, Theodore Maiman, along with other observances ...

TOKYO—An American physicist and two agronomists, one American and one Indian, will receive the 1987 Japan Prize at ceremonies here April 14. Theodore Maiman, the father of laser technology, is being ...