Charles Hard Townes
1915-
American Physicist
Charles Townes conceived and built the first maser (1953), for which he won a share of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics. Townes later worked with Arthur Sch...
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Townes, Charles Hard (1915– )
Charles Hard Townes had a long, distinguished career as a physicist and educator with years of...
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Charles Townes is generally considered the American inventor of the maser (an acronym for microwave amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation), an honor he shares with two Russian scientis...
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Charles H. Townes was awarded a share of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery in 1951 of the maser , a device that can amplify microwaves for practical applications. About six years later...
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Charles Townes (born 1915) was a physicist whose work concentrated on the development of high-resolution spectroscopy of gasses in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. He shared the N...
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