“At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon, and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.”

— Willis Lamb

W. E. Lamb, Anti-photon, Appl. Phys. B 60, 77-84 (1995).

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