NEW YORK (AP) - Gordon Gould, a pioneer in laser technology who coined the word "laser'' and won a decades-long struggle to secure patent rights on the most commonly used type, has died at age 85.
He died Friday in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan of an infection, his wife, Marilyn Appel, said Monday.
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