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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. In 1960, he began giving the occasional public lecture at the Royal Institution , in London, filling in for speakers at the last minute. www.youtube.com.

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