the inventor of the laser
The laser was invented by Gordon Gould in 1959. The idea of the laser came to him in a dream. When he woke up he jotted down the dream and in the morning started working on it. He came up with the name of laser using an acronym. The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emmisssions of Radiation. In the beginning because he miss understood his paton lawyer and waited a few years before going and getting his invention patened. when he finally did he filled way too much and it took almost 20 years for the 1st one of all the papers to get finished. finally in 1979 his invention got patened. He was not the 1st to get it patened though. There is not much on the laser but in my opion it has changed the world from using it to point out something in a presentation to something scientific its there.
Sources:
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/69.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/p/Gordon_Gould.htm
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