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Exciting times

Nature Photonics volume 4, page 294 (2010)Cite this article

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Nadya Anscombe talks to Charles Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the maser, the forerunner to the laser, to find out how the invention of the laser came about and how he struggled to convince people of its importance.

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Anscombe, N. Exciting times. Nature Photon 4, 294 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.113

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