This morning, it appears that Google has decided to honor the invention of the laser with another one of their nifty logo tributes.

On May 16th, 1960, Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser. At the time, he was quoted as saying, “A laser is a solution seeking a problem.” He had no idea that it would eventually be used for brain imaging, measurement, burning, etc.

Are they at least ill-tempered sea bass?

P.S. I always love these Google tributes. Last year I wrote a post one the Valentines Day logo that looked like it said “Googe”. That post melted down my server until I installed caching. I guess everyone else likes these things too.

Resources:

• Maiman’ s obituary article in the International Herald Tribune is the source of some of the info in this post. It’s worth a read.