LeGrand Van Uitert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American chemist
Date of Birth: 06-May-1922
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jun-1999
Profession: chemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About LeGrand Van Uitert
- LeGrand Van Uitert (May 8, 1922 in Salt Lake City – June 3, 1988 in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American scientist who co-invented the first continuous beam optical MASER, now known as a LASER, using a synthetic rare-earth doped garnet crystal.
- U.S.
- patent applications for the invention of the continuous wave optical MASER were filed on August 7, 1961, and issued as U.S.
- Patent Nos.
- 3,174,938 (March 23, 1965) and 3,177,154 (April 6, 1965). In 1964, Van Uitert, Joseph E.
- Geusic, and H.
- W.
- Marcos demonstrated lasing in Nd-Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG), which would become the dominant solid state laser.
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