Arthur Schawlow

A physicist, Schawlow designed the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation -- the laser -- with Dr. Charles H. Townes, based on Towne's earlier microwave amplifier, the maser. Schawlow's breakthrough, an "echo chamber" for light based on an artificial ruby, was the key. Townes and Schawlow, working in Townes' lab at Columbia University (though Schawlow actually worked for Bell Labs), published their work in 1958. The first working device sprang to light on May 16, 1960, in Malibu, Calif. Schawlow shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy. He died April 28 in Palo Alto, Calif., from congestive heart failure, a complication of leukemia. He was 77. From This is True for 25 April 1999 Suggestions for further reading: How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist by Charles H. Townes Amazon Price: $25.00 Customer Review: This book describes the history of the laser and how it was invented (and how it was almost NOT invented). The author was ridiculed by the scientific authorities of the day for daring to suggest that such a device was possible, and for wasting time o...   Introduction to Lasers and Masers by Anthony E. Siegman Amazon Price:   Amazing Light: A Volume Dedicated To Charles Hard Townes On His 80th Birthday Amazon Price: $89.95   The History of the Laser by Mario Bertolotti Amazon Price: $73.95 Customer Review: In the 1960s, when the first lasers were invented, they were huge, fragile devices. Taking up a large lab bench or optical table, and enclosed in clumsy glass tubes. Yet nowadays, if you walk into a supermarket, the checkout clerks invariably have a ...   Masers and Lasers by M. Brotherton Amazon Price:   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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