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Charles H. Townes
Charles Hard Townes
(July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American
Nobel Prize
-winning
physicist
and inventor. Townes was known for his work on the theory and application of the
maser
, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in
quantum electronics
connected with both maser and
laser
devices. He shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1964 with
Nikolay Basov
and
Alexander Prokhorov
.
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