Ali Javan

Ali Mortimer Javan (Persian: علی جوان), was born December 26, 1926 in Tehran , Iran within an Azari family (originally from Tabriz), is an Iranian-American inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett. He graduated from Alborz High School, started his university studies at University of Tehran and continued at Columbia University after coming to the United States in 1948. He received his Ph.D. in ph... more

Ali Mortimer Javan (Persian: علی جوان), was born December 26, 1926 in Tehran , Iran within an Azari family (originally from Tabriz), is an Iranian-American inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett. He graduated from Alborz High School, started his university studies at University of Tehran and continued at Columbia University after coming to the United States in 1948. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1954. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor of physics in 1961 and has been a professor since 1964. •After graduation, Ali Javan became a researcher at Bell Labs, where he first proposed the principle of gas lasers, which led him to co-invent a laser composed of helium and neon. •Worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor of physics in 1961 and full professor after 1964. •In 1975, he received the Fredric Ives Medal from the Optical Society of America •In 1993, Ali... less