Townes

American  

[tounz] / taʊnz /

noun

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

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Townes British  

/ taʊnz /

noun

1. 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  

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1. 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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Example Sentences

Tenille Townes performs on the Mane Stage on the second day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

From Los Angeles Times

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

You can hear the doubt through Townes’s assured, haunting vocals when she sings, “The only house is sinking sand / So I’ve got to run, always on the run.”

From Washington Post

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

Teachers began poking their heads out to see what the commotion was about, like Brooklyn natives looking out from their apartment fire escapes, Townes chuckled.

From Los Angeles Times