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20th-century American physicist

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United States

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Charles H. Townes (English)

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Charles

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Townes

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date of birth

28 July 1915Gregorian

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subject named as

Charles H. Townes

place of birth

Greenville

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date of death

27 January 2015

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Charles Hard Townes

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https://gizmodo.com/inventor-of-the-laser-dies-1682139697

publication date

27 January 2015

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14 April 2020

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Gizmodo

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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

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Charles Hard Townes

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Charles H. Townes

place of death

Oakland

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father

Henry Keith Townes, Sr.

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Geni.com

spouse

Frances Brow

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languages spoken, written or signed

English

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occupation

physicist

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24 June 2015

nuclear physicist

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university teacher

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inventor

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Category:American inventors

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field of work

physics

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employer

University of California, Berkeley

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University of Michigan

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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3 July 2019

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educated at

California Institute of Technology

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Duke University

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Furman University

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Greenville High School

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenville_Senior_High_School_(Greenville,_South_Carolina)&oldid=1003467984

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4 March 2021

doctoral advisor

William Ralph Smythe

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doctoral student

Ali Javan

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James Power Gordon

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Robert W. Boyd

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Raymond Chiao

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Helmut W. Schulz

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Robert G. Shulman

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Elsa M. Garmire

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John D. Monnier

point in time

1999

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Robert Lee White

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Mathematics Genealogy Project

Dan Martin Watson

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Ken Toshio Tatebe

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Jonathon Michael Weiner

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Everett Arthur Lipman

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Eugene Serabyn

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Arno Allan Penzias

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notable work

maser

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member of

Royal Society

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National Academy of Sciences

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Pontifical Academy of Sciences

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deceased/townes

Russian Academy of Sciences

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National Academy of Engineering

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Indian National Science Academy

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American Philosophical Society

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NNDB

American Astronomical Society

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NNDB

American Physical Society

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NNDB

Academia Europaea

affiliation

AE section Physics and engineering sciences

start time

1999

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AE member ID

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JASON

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award received

Guggenheim Fellowship

point in time

1955

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Guggenheim fellows ID

charles-h-townes

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

subject named as

Charles H. Townes

Niels Bohr International Gold Medal

point in time

1979

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Nobel Prize in Physics

point in time

1964

together with

Nikolay Basov

Alexander Prokhorov

prize money

136,500 Swedish krona

award rationale

för grundläggande arbeten inom kvantelektroniken, som lett till framställning av oscillatorer och förstärkare enligt maser-laserprincipen (Swedish)

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 (English)

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1964/summary/

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 (English)

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English

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nobelprize.org

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10 January 2021

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https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/04/prize-amounts-2020.pdf

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Table showing prize amounts (English)

language of work or name

English

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10 January 2021

publication date

April 2019

publisher

Nobel Foundation

Frederic Ives Medal

point in time

1996

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reference URL

https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/awards/award_descriptions/ivesquinn/

Stuart Ballantine Medal

point in time

1962

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reference URL

https://www.fi.edu/en/awards/laureates/charles-h-townes

Templeton Prize

point in time

2005

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SPIE Gold Medal

point in time

2010

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reference URL

https://spie.org/about-spie/spie-awards/spie-gold-medal#_=_

IEEE David Sarnoff Award

point in time

1961

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reference URL

https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/sarnoff_rl.pdf

Lomonosov Gold Medal

point in time

2000

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Petrie Prize Lecture

point in time

1985

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IEEE Medal of Honor

point in time

1967

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reference URL

https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/moh-rl.pdf

Wilhelm Exner Medal

point in time

1970

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reference URL

https://www.wilhelmexner.org/en/medalists/

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

point in time

1998

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National Medal of Science

point in time

1982

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Karl Schwarzschild Medal

point in time

2002

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reference URL

https://astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en/activities/awards/schwarzschild

Rumford Prize

point in time

1961

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reference URL

https://www.amacad.org/rumford-prize-recipients

National Inventors Hall of Fame

point in time

1976

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National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame ID

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IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

point in time

1959

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https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/liebmann_rl.pdf

John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science

point in time

1961

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Young Medal and Prize

point in time

1963

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.iop.org/about/awards/silver-subject-medals/thomas-young-medal-and-prize-recipients

Mendel Medal

point in time

1999

1 reference

reference URL

https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/president/university_events/mendelmedal/pastrecipients.html

Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award

point in time

1959

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reference URL

https://aapt.org/Programs/awards/richtmyer.cfm

Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy

point in time

1977

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/plyler.cfm

retrieved

7 October 2018

title

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics (English)

publisher

American Physical Society

Comstock Prize in Physics

point in time

1958

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reference URL

http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/comstock-prize-in-physics.html

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7 October 2018

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About the Comstock Prize in Physics

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Foreign Member of the Royal Society

point in time

1976

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stated in

Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007

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356

Science Writing Award

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Karl G. Jansky Lectureship

point in time

1971

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Remsen Award

point in time

1972

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reference URL

https://acsmaryland.org/remsen-award/

C.E.K. Mees Medal

point in time

1968

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reference URL

https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/awards/award_descriptions/meesmedal/

John Scott Award

point in time

1963

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reference URL

https://thejohnscottaward.github.io/jsc/1951-2010.html

Q126416244

point in time

16 June 1992

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Journal officiel de la République française

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http://legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000540262

nominated for

Nobel Prize in Physics

point in time

1958

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nobelprize.org

Nobel Prize People Nomination ID

10706

Nobel Prize in Physics

point in time

1959

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Nobel Prize People Nomination ID

10706

Nobel Prize in Physics

point in time

1960

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10706

Nobel Prize in Physics

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1961

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10706

Nobel Prize in Physics

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1962

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Nobel Prize in Physics

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1963

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Nobel Prize in Physics

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1964

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Nobel Prize in Physics

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1965

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https://www.obalkyknih.cz/view_auth?auth_id=jx20040722009

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Physicists: Biographical Dictionary

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259

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6

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Charles Townes

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Charles Hard Townes (28 Jul 1915 - 27 Jan 2015)

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