Gallium Phosphide
notes: label: Description
content: Chunks of gallium phosphide produced in 1871 by LeGrand Van Uitert (1922-1999), a materials scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories who, along with Joseph E. Geusic and H. W. Macros, developed what would become the dominant solid state laser. In 1993, he received Optical Society of America’s R. W. Wood Prize “for the discovery of the Nd:YAG laser and the demonstration of its usefulness as a practical solid state laser source.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Scientists Mold Industry At Big Bell Laboratories,” New York Times (May 27, 1982), p. B1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0329.18
label: accession number
content: 1988.0329
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0329.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mineral Sample
label: Object Name
content: Gallium Phosphide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.9 cm x 1.3 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: box: 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 3.175 cm