Laser: The Inventor the Nobel Laureate and the Thirty-Year Patent War

by Taylor Nick

Overview

Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx New York apartment opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." That was November 1957 and the 37-year-old graduate student had coined the name for a world-changing invention. Before he stopped he had written the first description of a working laser and how it could be used. What he didn't know was how to get a patent. So Gould even as a radical background denied him a security clearance to work on his own invention would spend the next thirty years fighting to prove he and not the Nobel laureate Charles Townes was the inventor. Finally by 1988 Gould's legal war had won him four basic laser patents that upheld his claim. LASER is the dramatic story of a brilliant lone inventor who took on the establishment and triumphed in the end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625361646
Publisher:	Jones Street Books
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	302
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Nick Taylor's non-fiction books cover a wide variety of subjects from bass fishing to the Mafia to life in a small church. The Washington Post called A Necessary End his memoir of his parents in their final years "one of the key stories of our time." His American-Made: the Enduring Legacy of the WPA is an award-winning history of the New Deal's signature jobs program. His collaboration with the late astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn produced John Glenn: A Memoir a New York Times bestseller. Taylor lives with his wife in New York City.