Ion I. Agârbiceanu
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 Ion I. Agârbiceanu on a 2016 stamp of Romania | |
| Born | January 6, 1907 |
| Died | March 1971 |
| Nationality | Romanian |
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| Fields | Physicist |
Ion I. Agârbiceanu (6 January 1907 – March 1971) was a Romanian physicist born in Bucium, Alba County in Transylvania. He was the son of the popular writer and devout Catholic Ion Agârbiceanu and his wife Maria.[1]
Agârbiceanu invented the gas laser in 1962, the first major improvement on laser technology, which was discovered by Theodore Maiman. Agârbiceanu's laser used a mixture of helium and neon to function. This laser was invented during Agârbiceanu's long tenure as head of Physics Lab 1 at the , which lasted from 1955 to 1971.[1] He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1963.[2]
Agârbiceanu died in March 1971, a scant few months after he stopped working for the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c (in Romanian) "Ion I. Agârbiceanu (1907–1971): Cercetător și inventator în domeniul luminii polarizate și al laserelor", at the Physics Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest site
- ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
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