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Shortly before his death in January 1984, Professor Alfred Kastler, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1966 for his work on optical pumping, submitted to Nature a book review of Masers and Lasers by Mario Bertolotti1. Published here is an edited and abridged version of the review.
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Birth of the maser and laser. Nature 316, 307–308 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/316307a0
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