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Lasers leap from the lab to the comics

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Lynn Savage, Features Editor, [email protected]

When Ted Maiman fired up the first working laser in May 1960, it marked the beginning of a golden age of scientific research and technological innovation that continues today. See “A Trip Through the Light Fantastic,” p. 58, and “On the Shoulders of Giants,” p. 70. However, despite all of the advances brought about by and for lasers, there were other reasons to be excited 50 years ago. The world was in the midst of the atomic age and at the beginning of the space age – with all of the accompanying hope and terror. After news of the laser broke out from the...Read full article

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    Published: May 2010
    Baby BoomersBasic SciencecomicsCyclopsDon HeckJack KirbyJerry SiegelJoe ShusterLighter Sideliving laserLynn SavageMarvel Comicsphysicsruby quartz visorScott SummersStan LeeSteve DitkoSupermansuperpowersTed MaimanX-MenLasers

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