On May 16, 1960, American physicist Theodore Maiman presents the world's first operating laser at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California. Today, lasers are present everywhere, ranging from common consumer devices such as DVD players, laser printers, and barcode scanners to professional laser devices for surgery and various other skin treatments, or in industry for cutting and welding materials. Actually, it was Albert Einstein, who has laid the theoretical foundations for the laser in his 1917 paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung (On the Quantum Theory of Radiation).
On October 7, 1885, Danish physicist and Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr was born. Bohr made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
On August 8, 1902, English theoretical physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born. Dirac is best known for his fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
M. Elsen, B. Piest, F. Adam, O. Anton, P. Arciszewski, W. Bartosch, D. Becker, J. Böhm, S. Boles, K. Döringshoff and 30 other author(s). Microgravity Science and Technology, (Sep 7, 2023)Funding Information: The QUANTUS IV - MAIUS project is a collaboration of Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation Bremen, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik. It is supported by the German Space Agency DLR with funds provided by the Federal Ministry for economic affairs and climate action (BMWK) under grant number DLR 50WP 1431-1435. We acknowledge support from Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Raumfahrtbetrieb, Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Simulations- und Softwaretechnik, Braunschweig. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC-2123 QuantumFrontiers - 390837967.
D. Patel, and M. Wilde. (2023)cite arxiv:2307.14932Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures, published in the journal special issue dedicated to the memory of Göran Lindblad.