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Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. [4] [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.
Apr 11, 2024 · 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. Townes studied at Furman University (B.A., B.S., 1935), Duke.
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Mar 18, 2015 · Charles Hard Townes transformed modern society by helping to invent the laser. He also made crucial contributions to astrophysics and infrared astronomy, and served as a US presidential...
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Jan 27, 2005 · Charles Townes’ pair of papers on the first maser in 1954 and 1955 laid the foundation for the laser era. C. Townes. 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.
Jan 27, 2015 · In 1952, Townes became Chairman of the Physics Department at Columbia and within another year the first practical maser device was tested successfully. Dr. Charles H. Townes, co-inventor of the laser, stands with a ruby maser amplifier, a device that paved the way for laser technology, in a 1957 photo.
Jan 28, 2015 · Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure time precisely, survey...
Jan 28, 2015 · Charles H. Townes, a renowned physicist who invented the laser and the maser, died in Oakland, California on Tuesday at the age of 99. Townes’ inventions earned him the Nobel Prize in...
