Mary Spaeth

Mary L. Spaeth
Born1940 (age 85–86)
Alma materWayne State University
Valparaiso University
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Ignition Facility
Hughes Aircraft Company

Mary Louise Spaeth (born 1940) is an American physicist and innovator who is one of the inventors of the tunable dye laser. Spaeth was the Chief Technology Officer at the start of the National Ignition Facility. She was inducted into the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame in 2022.