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Ali Javan

Ali Javan

1926 CE–2016 CE · Tehran

Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان, romanized: Ali Javān, Azerbaijani: Əli Cavan; 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.

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TehranטהראןIran — Qajar/Pahlavi capital

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Tehran became the seat of Iran's largest Jewish community after the Qajar dynasty made it the capital in 1786. R. Yedidya Shofet (1908-1995) served as its chief rabbi during the formative 20th century.

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