When1: 1951
When2: 1960
Who: Charles Townes [Townes, Charles]/Arthur L. Schawlow [Schawlow, Arthur L.]
What: physicist/inventor
Where: USA
works\ maser [1951 to 1953]; laser [1957 to 1960]
Detail: Townes lived 1915 to ?. Schawlow lived 1921 to 1999. Aleksandr M. Prokhorov [1916 to 2002] and Nikolai G. Basov [1922 to 2001] of Russia discovered maser and laser ideas, as did Joseph Weber [1919 to ?] of USA.
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