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    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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  • receives the 2015 Charles H. Townes Award of OSA". NCCR MUST. Retrieved 8 October 2018. "Professor Huber receives Charles Hard Townes Award 2013". CUI...
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  • eponymous album Townes (album), 2009 album by Steve Earle, dedicated to Townes Van Zandt Carol Lynn Townes, American gospel singer Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015)...
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    Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov. Alexander Michael Prochoroff was born on 11 July...
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  • Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics in 2000, and the Charles Hard Townes Medal in 2003. Hanna was elected to the Royal Society in 1998. Orazio...
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  • 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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    maser in 1952, and Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger built the first maser at Columbia University in 1953. Townes, Basov and Prokhorov...
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    experimental physics in graduate studies at MIT under the supervision of Charles Hard Townes, shortly after the experimental realization of the ruby laser. His...
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  • the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1990, the Charles Hard Townes Award of the OSA in 1998, the Quantum Electronics Award of IEEE in...
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    Prize 1993 Albert A. Michelson Medal by the Franklin Institute 2007 Charles Hard Townes Award by the OSA 2009 CNRS Gold medal 2010 Herbert Walther Award...
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    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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    Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes. Basov was born in the town of Usman, now in Lipetsk Oblast in 1922. He finished...
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    Prize in Laser Science in 1997, the Optical Society of America's Charles Hard Townes Award in 2002, and the United States Department of Energy's Enrico...
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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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    1991 – Research Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1993 – Charles Hard Townes Award 1994 – honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology...
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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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  • Molecular, and Optical Physics 2021 – The Optical Society of America Charles Hard Townes Medal for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to...
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  • Robert R. Wilson Prize (2019), the Hannes Alfvén Prize (2019) and the Charles Hard Townes Award (2020). Tajima is currently a professor of the University of...
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    Georgia Institute of Technology, won this same award in 2007. 1992: Charles Hard Townes Award of the Optical Society of America 1993: NAS Award for the Industrial...
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  • Ives Medal, the society's highest award. He also received OSA's Charles Hard Townes Medal in 1987, and was a Fellow of the society. Haus authored or...
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  • March 11, 2022. "The Optical Society Names Alexander Gaeta the 2019 Charles Hard Townes Award Winner" (Press release). Optica. April 2, 2019. "IEEE Fellows...
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  • P. Stoicheff Marija Strojnik Scholl John D. Strong Davida Teller Charles Hard Townes Victor Twersky Yurii Vlasov Jelena Vučković Laura Waller Daniel Frank...
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    University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Charles Townes and involves the use of nonlinear optical techniques in infrared detection...
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  • received the Einstein Prize for Laser Science, in 1990 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award, in 1993 the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute...
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  • Bernard M. Oliver, Leslie Orgel, John R. Platt, Gunther Stent, Charles Hard Townes. As a result of the conference, the following research directions...
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  • 1986 and 1994, respectively. He was the 1996 recipient of the OSA's Charles Hard Townes Award, recognized "for seminal and pioneering advances in the field...
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  • The Late Great Townes Van Zandt is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. It was the second album that he recorded in...
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  • recipients of the 1991 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics. He received the Charles Hard Townes Award in 1997. In 2001, he was the recipient of the Quantum Electronics...
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  • (1911–1988) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) Willis Lamb (1913–2008) Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015) Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)...
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    into the wafer. In 1958, a technical paper by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes first described the laser. Following Frosch and Derick research,...
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