LASER INVENTOR
CREATOR OF THE WORLD'S FIRST LASER
In the News
2020, May 16 – celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Laser with International Day of Light
Nature reviews physics - Sixty years of lasers
SPIE - The Laser turns 60!
OSA - The Laser at 60
Academic Perpectives from Cambridge University Press - A Brief History of Lasers: 60th annivversary of the laser
2017 – 39th Session of UNESCO General Conference proclaims the date of May 16 as the International Day of Light
2015 – International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies proclaimed by UNESCO
2010 – Year of the Laser LaserFest - a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the laser
2010 Laser Symposium, organized by Simon Fraser University
First International Neodymium – YAG Laser Society Conference held on October 2 - 5, 1983 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Birth of the laser video clip with Theodore Maiman, the special guest at the conference.
The Books
The Laser Odyssey, released in 2000, gives an inside account of the invention of the laser and tells the story from Ted Maiman's unique perspective.
The Laser Inventor, released in 2018 by Springer, is an extended version of the book. It is available widely, including at Amazon.com and Indigo.