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Page 1 of 1Gordon Gould
July 17, 1920 - September 16, 2005
Nationality: American
Category: Physicist
Subcategory: American Physicist
|  Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . | | But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. | | That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics. | | I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now. | | There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. | | The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. |
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