Theodore Maiman

Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960.

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Who was born first?

• Theodore Maiman and Martin Lewis Perl were born the same year
• Theodore Maiman and Marshall Warren Nirenberg were born the same year
• Theodore Maiman and Alan MacDiarmid were born the same year
• Theodore Maiman and F. Sherwood Rowland were born the same year
• Theodore Maiman and Karl Alexander Müller were born the same year

Timeline

1. Alan MacDiarmidApril 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007
2. F. Sherwood RowlandJune 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012
3. Karl Alexander MüllerApril 20, 1927 – January 9, 2023
4. Marshall Warren NirenbergApril 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010
5. Martin Lewis PerlJune 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014
6. Theodore Maiman (this page)July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007

Related

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• Louis PasteurDecember 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
• Carl Friedrich GaussApril 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
• Dmitri MendeleevJanuary 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
• Ernest RutherfordAugust 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
• Erwin SchrödingerAugust 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
• Wilhelm RöntgenMarch 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923
• Carl SaganNovember 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996