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Lasers were invented after someone said “what if light could be bossy?” And light said “say less.”

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Lasers were developed in 1960 by Theodore Maiman, building on theory by Einstein and work by Townes and Schawlow. They emerged from research into stimulated emission, not from a bossy-light idea.

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