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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Tim Gaspar, 44, founded an eponymous insurance agency in the Valley, which he sold in 2021, and is now campaigning full-time to win the Third District council seat, according to campaign spokesperson Haley Townes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Her aunt recorded the encounter, then stopped her aunt and brother while they followed the squad car as it took Townes to a hospital.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

Punch in L3 and listen as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard trade verses on Townes Van Zandt’s “Pancho and Lefty,” while you dig into a smoked burger topped with poblano relish.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

Had to give that fool Townes a bit of the rough side of my tongue.

From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain