Taken from the May 2010 issue of Physics World.
The laser’s early years were full of scientific creativity, public-relations spin and intense rivalry. Pauline Rigby describes how a then little-known scientist became the first person to design and build a working laser – and how the competitiveness of that period persists to this day
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