Beam: The Race to Make the Laser by Jeff Hecht

Beam: The Race to Make the Laser

Jeff Hecht

288 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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Beam is the story of the race to make the laser, the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration in a California laboratory. The quest was a struggle against physics, established wisdom, and the establish...

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