The scientist Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould

Living place: New York City

Birthday: 17-7-1920 (104 years old)

Population of US 1920: 106,461,000

Global rank: #49571

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Who is The scientist Gordon Gould?
Scientist who fought for over thirty-eight years for recognition and credit for inventing the laser. He was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.
He came up with the acronym for 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' - or LASER.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Encouraged by his mother, he grew up learning about the greatest inventions of the day.

Family life info

He was in a Marxist group with his first wife Glen Fulwider, which denied him open security on some top secret military work involving his laser.

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While other kids looked up to movie and sports stars, he was the idol of Thomas Edison.

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When was The scientist Gordon Gould born?
Gordon Gould birthday 17-7-1920 (at the age of 104).
Where is The scientist Gordon Gould's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gordon Gould was born in New York City, New York- United States. is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Gordon Gould's global rank is 49571 and whose rank is 213 in list of famous The scientist. Population of US in 1920 is about 106,461,000 persons.
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Events in 1920 and 17-7

Events in US in the birth year of Gordon Gould

  • Women's suffrage goes into effect following Tennessee's ratification of the 19th amendment (Aug. 26).
  • Factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti are picked up by police (May 5) in connection with an April 15 murder and robbery in South Braintree, Mass.
  • A bomb explodes in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 and injuring 200 (Sept. 16).

Birthday Gordon Gould (17-7) in history

  • Day 17-7 year 1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
  • Day 17-7 year 1898: Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
  • Day 17-7 year 1917: The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.
  • Day 17-7 year 1938: "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.
  • Day 17-7 year 1945: President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.
  • Day 17-7 year 1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
  • Day 17-7 year 1975: The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.
  • Day 17-7 year 1998: The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
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