Ali Javan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ali Javan

Iranian-American Physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1926

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 12-Sep-2016

Profession: professor, physicist, inventor

Nationality: United States, Iran

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ali Javan (Persian: ??? ?????, romanized: Ali Javan; December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian-American physicist and inventor.
He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W.
R.
Bennett, Jr., and D.
R.
Herriott was demonstrated in 1960.
His other contributions to science have been in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy.