Landauer, Rolf William, 1927-1999.
Oral history interview with Rolf William Landauer, 1984 October 17.
The microwave spectroscopy group under William V. Smith in the late 1950s. Research directions and management attitudes in the early years of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The Sorokin-Stevenson 4-level masers. The invention of the semiconductor laser in 1962. Research on optical parametric oscillators. Also prominently mentioned are: Bill Dumke, William S. Franklin, Seymour Keller, James Arthur Krumhansl, Gordon Lasher, Marshall I. Nathan, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, W. V. Smith, Peter P. Sorokin, Mirek Stevenson, Charles Hard Townes, John Von Neumann, Weinrich; Bell Telephone Laboratories, and International Business Machines Corporation.
Dumke, Bill
Franklin, William S.
Keller, Seymour
Krumhansl, J. A. (James A.)
Landauer, Rolf William, 1927-1999.
Lasher, Gordon, 1926-
Nathan, Marshall I., 1933-
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999
Smith, William Vick
Sorokin, Peter P.
Stevenson, Mirek
Townes, Charles H.
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.
Weinrich
Bell Telephone Laboratories
International Business Machines Corporation.
Lasers
Lasers -- History.
Microwave spectroscopy.
Optics.
Oscillations.
Science and industry
Semiconductor lasers.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh
Bromberg, Joan Lisa. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA