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Charles Hard Townes



Townes, Charles Hard (1915– ), U.S. physicist awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for physics, with Nikolai Basov and Aleksander Prokhorov, for independently working out the theory of the maser and, later, the laser. He built the first maser in 1951.



See also: Laser; Maser.

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