Happy Birthday

Been nearly a month since the last post...anyway, here are some birthday wishes for a piece of "blue-sky" research which almost accidentally became one of the most ubiquitous technologies we know*

• The first laser
  Charles H. Townes
  from A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World
  Laura Garwin and Tim Lincoln, editors
• Happy 50th birthday to the laser (CNN)

*manager, accountants and lawyers take note!