Oral history interview A. M. Prokhorov, 1984 September 14.

Prokhorov, A. M. (Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich), 1916-

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Townes, Charles Hard

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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 Br...

Guenther, Arthur Henry, 1931-....

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Basov, N. G. (Nikolaĭ Gennadievich), 1922-2001

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Nicolay G. Basov (b. December 14, 1922, Lipetsk, Russia-d. July 1, 2001, Moscow, Russia) was an optical physicist at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, specializing in quantum electrodynamics, lasers, and masers. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Charles N. Townes: "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." After obaining a PhD from Mo...

Gordy, Walter, 1909-1985

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Walter Gordy (1909-1985) was a James B. Duke Professor of Physics at Duke University. In his over thirty year career at Duke, he founded and directed the Duke Microwave Laboratory, and researched and published extensively. From the description of Walter Gordy papers, 1949-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 53906276 Walter Gordy was born on April 20, 1909 in Newton County Mississippi. After receiving a B.A. from Mississippi College in 1932, he r...