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

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

Kadejah Townes said she was returning a movie to a Redbox machine at a Walgreens when police responded to a false shooting call.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2023

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

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

"Very well," she replied, shutting the book in which she had looked up the Townes.

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