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Art Schawlow’s legendary good naturedness, humor, and showmanship evidenced themselves early in the development of lasers, in fact, at the first session of a conference ever to be concerned with lasers. That conference was the Ann Arbor Conference on Optical Pumping organized by Peter Franken and Richard Sands of the Physics Department of the University of Michigan in June 1959.
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Nelson, D.F. (1987). Reminiscence of Schawlow at the First Conference on Lasers. In: Yen, W.M., Levenson, M.D. (eds) Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47872-0_7
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