Townes, Charles Hard

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Dates:
Active 1985
Active 1986

Biographical notes:

Physicist. Member of technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1939-1947; professor of physics, Columbia University, 1948-1961; physics dept. chairman, director of radiation laboratory, and provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1967; University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1967.

From the description of Memoranda from Bell Telephone Laboratories concerning applications of microwave spectroscopy (1946); letters from Townes to Joan Bromberg regarding these memoranda and the Laser History Project, 1946-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354837

From the description of Proposal and cover letter submitted to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for research on a maser to amplify or oscillate at infrared frequencies, 1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79789838

Physicist. Full name: Charles Hard Townes.

From the description of Papers of Charles H. Townes. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132806

Physicist. Member of technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1939-1947; professor of physics, Columbia University, 1948-1961; physics dept. chairman, director of radiation laboratory, and provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1967; University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1967. Shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Nikolai Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov in 1964.

From the description of Letter to Arthur Henry Guenther concerning his opinion of Basov's view of the early history of laser development, 1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83317553

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Subjects:

  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Inventions
  • Lasers
  • Lasers
  • Masers
  • Microwave spectroscopy
  • Nobel Prizes
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Patents
  • Physicists
  • Physics
  • Physics
  • Radio astronomy
  • Science
  • Science
  • Science and state
  • Scientists in government
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Lasers
  • Physics
  • Science

Occupations:

  • Physicists

Places:

  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • California--Berkeley (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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