Word: laser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called laser scanner, which is a computerized checkout machine that can automatically add up a shopper's selections simply by reading a computer code printed on the packages...
Bloembergen, who shared the $180,000 prize with two non-Harvard scientists "for the development of laser spectroscopy," wasn't the only University official "delighted" by the sudden news. His selection made him Harvard's third Nobel Laureate this year, tying a 27-year-old University mark. Just two weeks earlier, two Medical School professors had garnered the prize in medicine for research on how the brain processes visual information...
...High Energy Inelastic Collision Processes Dudley Herschbach $184,730 1/1/80-1/31/82 Arts and Sciences Symposium on Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Systems Martin Moore-Ede $7,250 5/1/80-4/30/82 Medical Jet Lag Prevention: Physiological Mechanibms and Iharcacological Therapy Martin Moore-Ede $265,041 4/1/78-3/31/82 Medical Spectroscopic Determination of Intermolecular Potentials of Gas Laser Components and of Major Atmospheric Constituents William Klemperer $345,048 4/1/77-9/30/81 Arts and Sciences Fields and Currents and Charges on Obstacles in a Parallel-Plate Simulator at Selected Frequencies Tai Tsun Wu $94,153 2/2/81-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences...
Miller suggested using laser instead of radio communication, placing communications satellites above the range of Soviet anti-satellite missiles, and boosting replacement satellites in space by mounting them, instead of warheads, on MX-missiles...
...Soviets will be able to deploy laser weapons against planes and troops by the mid-1980s...