Article ID: CBB000641776

The Playful Physicist (2004)

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This interview covers Arthur Schawlow's professional life from his days as a graduate student at the University of Toronto, through his work with Charles Townes at Columbia University, his work at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and into his professorship at Stanford University.

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Description Transcript based on a 1984 interview of Arthur L. Schawlow.


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Authors & Contributors
Meyer-Spasche, Rita
Sheeley, Neil R.
Wan, Zhaoyuan
Silva Neto, Climério Paulo da
Wolverton, Mark
Wilson, Robert Rathbun
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Technology and Culture
Science in Context
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Physics in Perspective
Journal of Geophysical Research
Publishers
Simon & Schuster
Institute of Physics Publishing
Imperial College Press
Concepts
Physics
Lasers; masers
Interviews
Inventors and invention
Biographies
Autobiographies
People
Buneman, Oscar (1913-1993)
Finch, George Ingle
Thomson, George Paget
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
Townes, Charles Hard
Zimbardo, Philip G.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Modern
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Milan (Italy)
West Germany
Russia
China
Soviet Union
Institutions
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Stanford University
Imperial College
Kitt Peak National Observatory
California Institute of Technology
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