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Laser - The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Time: 1959

Place: U.S.

Details: At a conference in 1959, Gordon Gould published the term LASER in the paper The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

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