title: Obituary: Theodore H. Maiman (1927-2007).
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. cht@ssl.berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Townes
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