Townes

American  

[taunz] / 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  

/ tounz /

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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Townes

“Tim is staying focused on his own race,” campaign spokesperson Haley Townes said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

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

They were first planted neere the riuer of Tweede; besides those who dispersed into diuers Townes.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

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