Who is Theodore Harold Maiman's family?

Answer 1

His father and mother were Abe and Rose Anne Maiman. In his book, The Laser Odyssey, Maiman says his father kept a small electronics lab in every home they had. Abe taught his son electronics. "He was a warm loving father." At age 12 Ted got an after school job repairing electrical appliances in Denver. At age 13 he was running the repair shop entirely on his own. The owner took a job in a defense factory as it was the beginning of World War II. But he would only pay Ted 25 cents an hour so at age 14 Ted got another job with a 40% raise also doing electrical appliance repair. He kept this job in high school after school. After dinner he took a night class in radio theory at the University of Colorado. Right after high school he got a job designing military test equipment and power supplies.

We can thank his father for Ted's invention of the first laser. Mozart was also a product of his father. Both Mozart and Maiman had great fathers.