{"id":3490,"date":"2026-03-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:56:20","slug":"laser-patented-in-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3490","title":{"rendered":"LASER Was Patented in 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) was patented in 1960 by Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow<\/strong>. Today we do not capitalize all the letters in the word laser. Children can learn how lasers work at: <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/laser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LASER<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) was patented in 1960 by Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow. Today we do not capitalize all the letters in the word laser. Children can learn how lasers work at: LASER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4705,3510,3509,3507,3508,5411],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4705","tag-arthur-schawlow","tag-charles-townes","tag-laser","tag-light-amplification-by-stimulated-emission-of-radiation","tag-march-22","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27199,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/27199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}