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Charles Hard Townes (Julie 28, 1915 – Januar 27, 2015) wis an American Nobel Prize-winnin pheesicist[1] an educator.
Charles Hard Townes | |
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![]() Townes in 2007 | |
Born | 28 Julie 1915 Greenville, Sooth Carolina |
Dee'd | 27 Januar 2015 99) Berkeley, California | (aged
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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