Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes 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.
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- Born in
- Greenville
- Educated at
- Furman UniversityGreenville High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDuke University
- Awards
- 🏆 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship🏆 Karl Schwarzschild Medal🏆 Petrie Prize Lecture🏆 Rumford Prize🏆 John Scott Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William Ralph Smythe
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert W. Boyd
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1915
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