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Charles Hard Townes

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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... Read more

Townes, Charles Hard (1915– )

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Table 1. Rolling Resistance Coefficient of Various Tire Types Townes, Charles Hard (1915– ) Charles Hard Townes had a long, distinguished career as a physicist and educator with years of... Read more

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Charles Hard Townes

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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... Read more

Charles H. Townes

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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... Read more

Charles H. Townes

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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... Read more