Theodore Maiman

Theodore Harold Maiman (born July 11, 1927) is an American physicist who invented the first operable laser device (patent number 3,353,115). Maiman received the Japan Prize in 1987. He is the author of a book, "The Laser Odyssey".

He now lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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