Google logo 0516：invention of the first laser
大家都知道，Google logo人性化的百变也是它独特的吸引人的地方。每逢一些特殊日子，Google都会依据既有的Logo做变化，产生既有应景的logo。今天发现Google.com换成了这样一幅具有光泽感，速度感的图片。鼠标悬停发现这样的label：invention of the first laser。
马上上网Google一下，却发现中文网页介绍激光的发明的很少，只有少的可怜的信息。
1960年5月16日，在美国加利福尼亚的休斯空军试验室里，一束激光由红宝石棒中发出，虽然它仅持续了三亿分之一秒，然而它却标志着人类文明史上一个新时代的来临。
最后在一个叫做laserfocusword的网站上找到了更详细一点的信息。激光的发明人叫做Theodore (Ted) H. Maiman，而他已经在2007年的5月5号与世长辞了。下面是关于他的一些生平资料，同学们可以自己看一下，在心里默默的缅怀一下这位伟大科学家：
Maiman was born in 1927 and learned electronics from his father, Abe, an electrical engineer for the American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (AT&T). He began his academic studies at the University of Colorado and earned a B.S. degree in engineering physics in 1949. Two years later he attended Stanford University and obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering followed by a doctorate in physics in 1955. At Stanford, Maiman studied under the theoretician Willis Lamb, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1955, months after Maiman received his doctorate.
In 1960 Maiman invented the first functioning laser while working at Hughes Aircraft Company. Hughes’s managers had previously assigned Maiman to build a more practical version of the maser using microwave emission from chromium atoms in synthetic ruby crystals. Maiman created a new maser design that eliminated the external magnets in favor of a magnet inside the Dewar, thereby reducing the weight from 5,000 to 25 pounds. In 1962 Maiman established his own enterprise, Korad Corporation, which undertook the development and manufacture of lasers. In 1968, after selling the company to Union Carbide Corporation, Maiman founded Maiman Associates. From 1976 to 1983, Maiman served as vice president of advanced technology at TRW (now Northrop Grumman), where this photo was taken in 1985 to mark the 25th anniversary of his invention of the first working laser. He was most recently a director of Control Laser Corporation and a member of the advisory board of Industrial Research Magazine.
Maiman is the author of the basic patent on the ruby laser and a number of patents on masers, lasers, laser displays, optical scanning, and modulation. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize and was given membership in both National Academies of Science and Engineers. He was also a recipient of 1983/1984 Physics Prize, the same year he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Three years later he became laureate of the prestigious Japan Prize, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
P.S.: 中国大陆直接访问www.google.com会被自动转向到www.google.cn而看不到Google百变的logo，大家可以在Google.cn主页点击页面右下方的Google.com in English来进入google英文主页。
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