
Charles Hard Townes
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Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. 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. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the U.S. Government, meeting every President from Harry S. Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999). Townes directed the U.
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Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way for the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99 (Published 2015)
Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99 - University of California, Berkeley
Birthday bash to celebrate laser inventor Charles Townes’ 99th - University of California, Berkeley