10 MIMS VS. BELL LABS
Since reading about Bell Laboratories in the July 1954 issue of National Geographic magazine when I was eleven years old, one of my ambitions had been to someday visit Bell Labs, the research arm of AT&T and one of the world’s most productive scientific institutions. The transistor and the silicon solar cell were invented there, and the laser was first proposed by Bell Labs consultant Charles Townes and Bell Labs scientist Arthur Schawlow, his brother-in-law.
The Weapons Lab sent me to Bell Labs in 1970 to discuss its latest diode laser developments. In March 1979, I again visited Bell Labs, this time with Peter Purpura, curator of Explorers Hall at the National Geographic Society’s headquarters in Washington, DC. The ...
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