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Ali Javan

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Iranian-American Physicist

United StatesScientistsLived 1926 to 2016 · aged 89
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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. , and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960.

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2006National Inventors Hall of Fame
1998Willis E. Lamb Award
1993Albert Einstein World Award of Science
1975Frederic Ives Medal
1962Stuart Ballantine Medal
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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.

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United States
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1926 to 2016 · aged 89
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