Gender Male
Despite a degree in economics from University of San Francisco, he followed the now-fascinating trail of technology and joined Palo Alto-based Varian Associates and then Spectra-Physics, where he was instrumental in helping the company expose the first commercial gas laser products to an unsuspecting but wildly responsive user group. Gene left
Spectra-Physics and became the organizing founder of Coherent, Inc., where he and a devoted start-up team of physicists and engineers developed and marketed the first commercial gas ion and CO2 lasers, which today are part of so many miraculous and useful products.
