# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-javan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:18:16.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-javan"
name: "Ali Javan"
slug: "ali-javan"
description: "Ali Javan was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr., and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. His other contributions to science have been in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy."
tagline: "Iranian-American Physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Javan_ali.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-12-26"
deathDate: "2016-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.867068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ali Cevan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "علي جوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "على جوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "علی جوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "علی جوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալի Ջավան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%AE_Cewan"
    title: "Elî Cewan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Javan"
    title: "Ali Javan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Джаван, Али"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алӣ Ҷавон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump