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Science 6 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5757, pp. 39 - 40
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122755
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Steps to the Light Fantastic

Colin Webb

Beam
The Race to Make the Laser
by Jeff Hecht
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005. 284 pp. $29.95, £18.50. ISBN 0-19-514210-1.
Building on recent memoirs and his own extensive research, the author provides a balanced account of the race to develop the laser and assesses the conflicting claims surrounding the invention.
The reviewer is at the Oxford Institute for Laser Science, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK. E-mail: c.webb1{at}physics.ox.ac.uk

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