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  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2024

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

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

Afterwards we bought all their teeth, which were in number 14. and of those 14. there were 10. small: afterwards they departed, making vs signes that the next day we should come to their Townes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard