Townes

American

[tounz] / taʊnz /

noun

Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.

Townes British

/ taʊnz /

noun

Charles Hard. born 1915, US physicist, noted for his research in quantum electronics leading to the invention of the maser and the laser; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1964

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Townes Scientific

/ tounz /

American physicist who invented the maser, laying the foundation for the development of laser technology. In 1964 he shared with Russian physicists Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov the Nobel Prize for physics.

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In the mid-1990s I was working in the group of Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes in California with then student John D. Monnier.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

Canadian country singer Tenille Townes is a traveler.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

Haley’s disciplinary file showed that after Townes filed a complaint, he was written up for failing to fill out proper paperwork — not for use of force.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2023

He’s an oddly upper-class desperado, like Townes Van Zandt.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

Townes, of course, is as pleased as Punch, but I very soon knocked that out of him.

From Here and Hereafter by Pain, Barry

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