Word: maiman
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...they can read CDs, remove tattoos and repair detached retinas. But in 1960, when physicist Theodore Maiman unveiled the first working laser at a New York City news conference, only a few grasped the device's potential. The trick to creating the tiny, potent pink force that won him world fame: selecting as his medium synthetic rubies, which had been dismissed by many scientists, and using pulsing, rather than continuous, light...
...Laser Long before the laser was invented, Albert Einstein reckoned that excited molecules hit by photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...