Ali Javan
Ali Javan (born December 26, 1926 in Tehran , † September 12, 2016 ) was an Iranian physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Together with William R. Bennett and Donald Richard Herriott , he developed the helium-neon laser in 1960 .
Life
Javan's parents were from Tabriz . He graduated from Alborz High School and began his studies at Tehran University . In 1948 he went to the USA, where he received his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1954 . He was then a post-doctoral student there until he started in September 1958 in the research group at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey . There he invented the principle of the gas laser. In 1961 he went to MIT as an associate professor of physics, and from 1964 as a professor.
In 1961 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , in 1964 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1974 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1975 he received the Frederic Ives Medal from the Optical Society of America , and in 1993 the Albert Einstein World Award of Science .
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| SURNAME | Javan, Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2016 |