Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) is set to star as Iranian-American physicist and inventor Ali Javan in an upcoming biopic to be written and directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night).
Javan firstproposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W.
R. Bennett, Jr. and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Javan also contributed to the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy.
Hisoriginal 1960 helium neon-laser device is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
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