Charles H. Townes

Charles Hard Townes (Julie 28, 1915 – Januar 27, 2015) wis an American Nobel Prize-winnin pheesicist an educator.

Charles Hard Townes
Townes in 2007
Born	28 Julie 1915(1915-07-28) Greenville, Sooth Carolina
Dee'd	27 Januar 2015(2015-01-27) (aged 99) Berkeley, California
Residence	United States
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Furman University (B.S. & B.A.) Duke University (M.A.) Caltech (Ph.D.)
Kent for	Inventing the Maser
Awairds	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

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• Biography and Bibliographic Resources, frae the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
• News.harvard.edu Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Charles Hard Townes Archived 2006-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Amazing Light: Visions of Discovery (Symposium in honor of Charles Townes) Archived 2006-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
• Bright Idea: The First Lasers (history with interview clips) Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Infrared Spatial Interferometer Array Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Research page Archived 2006-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Oral History interview transcript with Charles H. Townes 20 and 21 May 1987, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Dedication Program for the Charles H. Townes Center for Science, Furman University, November 1, 2008 Archived 2013-05-29 at the Wayback Machine