- Charles H. Townes - Wikipedia
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist [3][5] Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices [6][7][8][9][10] He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikola
- Charles H. Townes – Biographical - NobelPrize. org
In 1951, Dr Townes conceived the idea of the maser, and a few months later he and his associates began working on a device using ammonia gas as the active medium In early 1954, the first amplification and generation of electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission were obtained
- Charles Hard Townes | Nobel Prize, Quantum Theory, Laser . . .
Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist, joint winner (with the Soviet physicists Aleksandr M Prokhorov and Nikolay G Basov) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser
- Charles Townes - Biography, Facts and Pictures
Charles Townes was the experimental physicist who invented the laser - now indispensable in science, technology, and medicine Townes received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work More than a dozen subsequent Nobel Prizes have depended on the existence of lasers
- Physics - Invention of the Maser and Laser
Charles Townes’ pair of papers on the first maser in 1954 and 1955 laid the foundation for the laser era Proud father Charles Townes and his colleagues were the first to build a “maser,” which operated in the microwave frequency range It was the precursor of the laser
- Charles H. Townes - National Academy of Sciences
Charles Hard Townes, co-recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-inventions of the maser and laser, died peacefully on January 27, 2015 in Oakland, California at the age of 99
- About Charles Townes | Charles H. Townes Lecture Series . . .
Charles H Townes was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose invention of the maser led to the development of the laser A native of Greenville, S C , Townes was born in 1915 and grew up on Sumner Street in a home that was later razed to make room for St Francis Hospital
- Memories of Professor Charles Townes | Physics
"Charles Townes was the rarest of men, someone who revolutionized science and technology, but at the same time was kind and generous to others At a time in life when many scientists are adding the final details to their accomplishments, he came to Berkeley, entered a new field--experimental astrophysics--and pushed it into new directions
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