“ It's funny to consider that in 1958 the year that American scientist Charles
Townes showed that a MASER could theoretically be designed to
operate in the visible spectrum of spectrum. However, colleagues were quick to tell him "that his research was of little relevance to the real world".
The year was 1958, the 'hula hoop' was all the craze in Europe and Russian author Boris Pasternek declined the Nobel Prize in Literature because they feared that he would be forced to ban him from his homeland.
I'm sure the world was transformed a great deal when Charles
Townes received the Nobel Prize in Physics four years later.
Lasers are now used throughout the world, which includes a growing number of cosmetic treatments.
These include treatment of wrinkles and scars from
acne, the removal of tattoos, the removal of hair as well as
pigmented blemishes (age spots and moles) and treatment
for vascular lesions (port staining of wine and spider veins).In reality, the
true story of lasers was born a few years
before. In the year of 1917, the famous scientist Albert Einstein postulated that atoms could be
induced to emit tiny amounts of energy known as "photons" in his
work "On the Quantum Theory of Radiation." This sentinel piece of physics established the foundations to
the concept of stimulated radiation emission, which was later used by the by American physicist Gordon Gould to
coin the LASER acronym. The term is an abbreviation of the phrase light amplification caused by the stimulated emission of
radiation.The date was the year 1957, and it was 1957 and the Russians began to send Sputnik 1 into the skies over a horrified US nation. The Senator Lyndon Johnson spoke for the nation when he stated that "soon they'll be dropping bombs on us from space as if they were throwing rocks at cars from the freeway crossings!".
The headlines in newspapers that day spoke of
his fears when one headline read "Soviet satellite circles globe every 60 minutes".
The year was also the year that plans were drawn up to
begin the race to the moon and America ushered in a new age of political,
technological, military, and scientific advances. The Government formed the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and huge funds were distributed to both public and private laboratories across the United States to
fund the creation of a new spacecraft and also the first working laser.In 1960,
their efforts paid off when a physicist called
Theodore Maiman working with the Hughes Electric
Corporation in California made the first operational Ruby laser. ”