William R. Bennett, 78, Pioneer in Gas Lasers, Dies
July 7th, 2008 by
Dr. Bennett was a physicist and inventor who helped develop a gas laser in the 1960s in technology that later revolutionized surgery and made possible compact-disc players and grocery-store scanners.
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