Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx, New York, apartment,
opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on
the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation." That was November 1957, and the 37-year-old
graduate student had coined the name for a world-changing
invention. Before he stopped, he had written the first description
of a working laser and how it could be used. What he didn't know
was how to get a patent. So Gould, even as a radical background
denied him a security clearance to work on his own invention, would
spend the next thirty years fighting to prove he, and not the Nobel
laureate Charles Townes, was the inventor. Finally, by 1988,
Gould's legal war had won him four basic laser patents that upheld
his claim. LASER is the dramatic story of a brilliant lone inventor
who took on the establishment and triumphed in the end.
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