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 Nobel Prize in physics in 1964 for his work leading...

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, Townes speculated on the possibility of building a...

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 scientists, Aleksandr Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov. The...

Table 1. Rolling Resistance Coefficient of Various Tire Types Charles Hard Townes had a long, distinguished career as a physicist and educator with years of service to the military and academic research communities. One particular...

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 Schawlow (1921- ) on extending maser principles to the visible portion of...

Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) 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...

A totalisator failure forced the cancellation of three races at Charles Town Races, as well as simulcasts of the final two races from Hollywood Park, during last night's program at the West Virginia track. The failure occurred at 7:51 when American Totalisator, the...

When the West Virginia Breeders' Classic is run Saturday night at Charles Town, the track's old hands will be watching in amazement. And people connected with racing in Maryland will look on with envy. The eight races for products of West Virginia's modest...