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The old-boy “establishment ” had a difficult time coping with the traumatic blow that I had dealt them by both beating them at their own game and in a manner that they had publicly declared as not practically possible. Fortunately, I had not followed the teachings and prognostications of Schawlow and Townes, and in their eyes this was a mortal sin.
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Editor’s note: The phony war continued even after Ted’s death. The Google “Doodle ” for “Invention of the First Laser,” presumably for the 50th anniversary, was issued for May 16, 2008 (not 2010), presumably based on the 1958 year of the Schawlow–Townes article. The Google Doodle can be viewed at http://www.google.com/doodles/invention-of-the-first-laser.
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H.Z. Cummins, I. Abella, O.S. Heavens, N. Knable, and C.H. Townes.
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Maiman, T.H. (2018). Nullification Tactics. In: The Laser Inventor. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61940-8_16
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