Died 2005-09-16.
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Gordon Gould
Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies. He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain.
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Born 17 July 1920 · Died 16 September 2005 · Q546175
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2005· 1 entry
1991· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Patlex won its first decisive enforcement victory, against Control Laser corporation, a manufacturer of lasers
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1985· 1 entry
And his wife settled in Breckenridge, Colorado, where they took long hikes and sponsored chamber music concerts, and she sang in the Colorado Symphony chorus
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1983).
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1979· 2 entries
Gould and his financial backers founded the company Patlex, to hold the patent rights and handle licensing and enforcement
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Covering a variety of laser applications including heating and vaporizing materials, welding, drilling, cutting, measuring distance, communication systems, television, laser photocopiers and other photochemical applicati
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1973· 1 entry
Gould left the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to help found Optelecom, a company in Gaithersburg, Maryland that makes fiberoptic communications equipment
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1968· 1 entry
Covering an obscure application—generating X-rays using a laser
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1967· 1 entry
Gould left TRG and became a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now New York University Tandon School of Engineering
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1959· 1 entry
And was adopted despite resistance from Schawlow and his colleagues
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1956· 1 entry
Gould proposed using optical pumping to excite a maser, and discussed this idea with the maser's inventor Charles Townes, who was also a professor at Columbia
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1949· 1 entry
Gould went to Columbia University to work on a doctorate in optical and microwave spectroscopy
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at Union College, Bachelor of Science (1941).
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1920· 2 entries
Born 1920-07-17.
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The son of Helen Vaughn (nee Rue) and Kenneth Gould
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