Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he...
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the first maser was built by Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger at Columbia University in 1953. Townes, Nikolay Basov and Alexander...
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since 1981, it is named after the Nobel Prize-winning laser pioneer Charles H. Townes. Former winners include Nobel Prize laureates John L. Hall, Claude...
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (category Articles with hCards)
the widely used text Microwave Spectroscopy (1955) with Charles Townes. Schawlow and Townes were the first to publish the theory of laser design and...
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Scientist By Charles H. Townes – Oxford University Press 1999 pp. 85–105. How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist By Charles H. Townes – Oxford...
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Herbert Zeiger (redirect from Zeiger, H. J.)
Between 1953-54, he worked alongside Charles H. Townes and James P. Gordon, who was then a PhD student of Townes, at Columbia University to develop the...
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to give a seminar on this idea, and Charles H. Townes asked him for a copy of the paper. In 1953, Charles H. Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon...
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Reinhard Genzel (category Articles with hCards)
influence of his father, Ludwig Genzel [de]; his experiences working with Charles H. Townes; and more. Genzel was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, the...
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Arno Allan Penzias (category Articles with hCards)
then heavily involved in microwave physics. Penzias worked under Charles H. Townes, who later invented the maser. Penzias enrolled as a graduate student...
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Robert W. Boyd (category Articles with hCards)
for Laser Science and Quantum Optics and the 2016 recipient of the Charles H Townes Award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical...
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Theodore Maiman (redirect from Theodore H. Maiman)
Their work was stimulated by a 1958 paper by Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes offering theoretical analysis and a proposal for a gaseous system...
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Harry Rhett Townes (September 18, 1914 – May 23, 2001) was an American actor who later became an Episcopalian minister. Harry Townes was born in Huntsville...
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blogger, and conservative commentator Charles H Townes, physicist, 1964 Nobel Prize winner in physics Letitia H. Verdin, Associate Justice-elect of the...
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May 1952. The first maser was built by Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger in 1953. Townes, Basov and Prokhorov were awarded the...
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Rumford Prize (category Articles with hCards)
Fermi, for his studies of radiation theory and nuclear energy; and Charles H. Townes, for his development of the laser. One man, Samuel Pierpont Langley...
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Townes Van Zandt is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in September 1969 by Poppy Records. It includes...
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Friis (Engineering) 1959 - Albert Hoyt Taylor (Engineering) 1959 - Charles H. Townes (Physics) 1960 - Rudolf Kompfner (Engineering) 1960 - Harry Nyquist...
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IEEE Medal of Honor (category Articles with hCards)
from the original on September 28, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2024. "Charles H. Townes - IEEE Awards". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
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effect was discovered in 1955 by American physicists Stanley Autler and Charles Townes. It is the AC equivalent of the static Stark effect which splits the...
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James P. Gordon (category Articles with hCards)
with his doctoral advisor Charles H. Townes. The invention of the maser won the Nobel Prize in Physics, which C.H. Townes shared in 1964 with the Russian...
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Arthur Compton (redirect from Arthur H. Compton)
Manhattan Project. After the war ended, Compton resigned his chair as Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of...
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Mills Purcell, John H. Sinfelt, Lyman Spitzer, Victor Weisskopf 1982—Philip W. Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes 1983—Margaret Burbidge...
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2006: Charles H. Townes and Raj Reddy 2007: Shirley Ann Jackson 2008: Norman Augustine 2009: Mildred Dresselhaus 2010: Bruce M. Alberts 2011: Charles M....
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politician Charles Hanson Towne (1877–1949), American author, poet and editor, who wrote "The Harvest of the Sea" about the RMS Titanic Charles H. Townes (1915–2015)...
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scientists Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov, and American scientist Charles H. Townes. This was a major milestone for holography because laser technology...
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (redirect from John H. van Vleck)
D. Sc., or D. Honoris Causa, degree from Wesleyan University in 1936. J. H. Van Vleck established the fundamentals of the quantum mechanical theory of...
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Stanley Autler (redirect from Stanley H. Autler)
superconductivity. In 1955, he and Charles H. Townes demonstrated a new dynamic Stark effect, later known as the Autler–Townes effect. This occurs when "a microwave...
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Henry Augustus Rowland (redirect from H. A. Rowland)
H. A. (1878). "On the magnetic effect of electric convection". American Journal of Science. 3rd series. 15: 30–38 – via hathitrust.org. Rowland, H. A...
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invention of the maser in 1957 by James P. Gordon, Herbert J. Zeiger and Charles H. Townes was made possible by a molecular beam of ammonia and a special electrostatic...
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Isaac Abella (category Articles with hCards)
studied under Charles H. Townes and was involved in the early research work of laser development. Notably, Abella's thesis under Townes was among the...
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