Charles Hard Townes
Physicist, Academic
1915 –
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Who is Charles Hard Townes?
Charles Hard Townes is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. The Japanese FM Towns computer and game console is named in his honour.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1915
Greenville - Also known as
- Charles H Townes
- Parents
- Spouses
- Frances H. Brown
(1941 - )
- Frances H. Brown
- Children
- Religion
- United Church of Christ
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
Physics
(1937 - 1939) - Furman University
- Duke University
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Greenville
- Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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