Back علي جوان Arabic على جوان ARZ Əli Cavan Azerbaijani علی جوان AZB Ali Javan German علی جوان Persian Ali Javan French Ali Javan HT Ալի Ջավան Armenian Ali Javan Italian
Ali Javan | |
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| Born | December 26, 1926 |
| Died | September 12, 2016 (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of Tehran |
| Known for | Gas lasers Lasing without inversion Laser spectroscopy Timing frequency of light |
| Awards | Stuart Ballantine Medal (1962) Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Columbia Bell Labs MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Townes |
| Doctoral students | Michael S. Feld[1] Richard M. Osgood Jr.[1] Irving P. Herman[1] |
| Other notable students | Timothy Creamer[1] Joseph J. Romm[1] |
Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان, romanized: Ali Javān); December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr., and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. His other contributions to science have been in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy.[2]
- ^ a b c d e Javan, Ali. "MIT Dissertation and Thesis Advisees". MIT. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ Taylor, Nick (2000). LASER: The inventor, the Nobel laureate, and the thirty-year patent war. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 125–128. ISBN 978-0-684-83515-0.