With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
When Theodore Maiman demonstrated a laser at Hughes Research Laboratories, in California, in 1960, Porter immediately realized it was the light source he’d been waiting for. As he told an interviewer in 1975, “Our future, both from a food and an energy point of view, may well have to depend largely on photochemistry applied to solar energy.
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