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Laser Pioneer’s Solution to Interstellar Puzzler
Surface-vein scans track cancer spread; laser pioneer’s solution to interstellar puzzle; California prison operates optical lab.
Peter Sorokin (left) and Mirek Stevenson (right) adjusting the uranium calcium fluoride laser at IBM.
Peter P. Sorokin worked on some of the first lasers in the early 1960s. More recently, he’s been studying a long-standing astronomical mystery that may also involve coherent light.
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