Theodore Maiman

Theodore Maiman was an American physicist born in Los Angeles in 1927 and died in Vancouver in 2007. He was educated at Stanford University and the University of Colorado Boulder. His doctoral advisor was Willis Lamb. Maiman worked as a physicist and was employed by Northeastern University and the Hughes Aircraft Company. He was interested in physics and worked in the field of physics.

Maiman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He was recognized in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. He received the Stuart Ballantine Medal, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the R. W. Wood Prize. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He authored works including *The Laser Inventor* and *The Laser Odyssey*. His cause of death was mastocytosis, and his manner of death was natural causes.