Charles Hard Townes
| Charles Hard Townes | |
|---|---|
 Townes in 2007 | |
| Born |
July 28, 1915 Greenville, South Carolina |
| Died |
January 27, 2015 (aged 99) Oakland, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Furman University (B.S. & B.A.) Duke University (M.A.) Caltech (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Inventing the Maser |
| Awards |
Comstock Prize in Physics (1958) Young Medal and Prize (1963) Nobel Prize in Physics (1964) IEEE Medal of Honor (1967) National Medal of Science (1982) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2000) Vannevar Bush Award (2006) SPIE Gold Medal (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Berkeley Bell Labs Institute for Defense Analyses Columbia MIT University Of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | William Smythe |
| Doctoral students |
Ali Javan James P. Gordon Robert Boyd Raymond Y. Chiao |
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist[1] 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. In 1982, Townes received the National Medal of Science, presented by President Ronald Reagan.
Townes was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Townes died at the age of 99 in Oakland, California, on January 27, 2015.[2]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Charles H. Townes - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. 2006-03-. Retrieved 2014-07-29. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Charles H. Townes Dies at 99; He Envisioned the Laser, Bringing It Into Daily Life". The New York Times.com. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
Other websites[change | change source]
Media related to Charles Hard Townes at Wikimedia Commons
- Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- News.harvard.edu
- Charles Hard Townes
- Amazing Light: Visions of Discovery (Symposium in honor of Charles Townes)
- Bright Idea: The First Lasers (history with interview clips)
- Infrared Spatial Interferometer Array
- Research page
- Oral History interview transcript with Charles H. Townes 20 and 21 May 1987, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Dedication Program for the Charles H. Townes Center for Science, Furman University, November 1, 2008
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