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Gordon, Eugene I., 1930-
Oral history interview with Eugene I. Gordon, 2000 March 23.
Topics discussed include: Eugene Gordon's childhood, family, and educational background; graduate studies and fusion work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); his work at Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs); microwave tubes and lasers; competition between research and development; the Journal of Quantum Electronics; electron devices in the 1960s; transistors, tubes, and semiconductors; integrated circuits; Jack Morton; the argon ion laser; high bandwidth systems; picturephone research; invention of the silicon target vidicon; Charge-coupled Device (CCD); medical projects including laser vision correction; conflicts of Bell Labs research and development; semiconductor lasers; fiber optic communications at AT&T; influence of Japanese manufacturing in the 1970s and 1980s; new directions in electron devices and electronics technology; Russian participation in the IEEE during the Cold War.
American physicist (1930- ). Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory, Bell Labs.
Gordon, Eugene I., 1930-
Morton, J. A. (Jack Andrew), 1913-
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Argon lasers.
Charge coupled devices.
Cold War
Fiber optics.
Integrated circuits.
Lasers -- Research.
Lasers -- Technological innovations.
Medical physics.
Microwave tubes.
Science -- Japan -- 20th century.
Semiconductors.
Telephone (Technology).
Transistors.
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