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Historical writers often do not take into account an interesting juxtaposition of reality and human nature. You might call it the “presence ” effect.
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Editor’s note: For a striking testament to the presence effect from Maiman’s laser invention, see the tribute to him in Addendum 2 by Nick Holonyak, Jr.
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Schawlow’s interview in Laser Pioneers, Jeff Hecht, editor, Academic Press, revised edition 1992, p. 91.
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Cited in Eliot Marshall, “Gould Advances Inventor’s Claim on the Laser,” Science (April 23, 1982), 216(4544), pp. 392–395, at p. 394.
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D.F. Nelson and W.S. Boyle made a continuous ruby laser in 1962, but it required cryogenic cooling and hence joined the array of laboratory curiosities.
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Maiman, T.H. (2018). Bandwagoning. In: The Laser Inventor. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61940-8_17
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