Chet Baker
October, 1964
At a hughes aircraft research center four years ago, an obscure young scientist named Theodore H. Maiman wrapped a rod of solid ruby in the flash coil of a photographer's strobe light, triggered a switch, and watched a thin dart of intense red light lance from the heart of the stone. He called his chromatic invention a "laser" (for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"). Promising to revolutionize modern science in areas as disparate as surgery and cyberne...
