CHARLES H. TOWNES

1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.

Born: 1915
Residence: U.S.A.
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA,

• Prize co-recipient: Nicolay Bennadiyevich Basov
• Prize co-recipient: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

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