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Could any of Schawlow's co-Nobel laureates for Physics in 1981 claim to have helped invent the laser?

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Answer

The correct answer is no. The laser was first invented by Schawlow and Townes. The other co-Nobel laureates for Physics in 1981 are Arthur Ashkin, Nicolas Bloembergen, and Kai Siegbahn. None of them had anything to do with the invention of the laser.
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