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Charles Townes

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Noun1.Charles Townes - United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)
physicist - a scientist trained in physics


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``Astronomy is good for getting young people interested in science and encouraging the public to understand science,'' said Charles Townes, a UC Berkeley professor and Nobel laureate who directs an observatory interferometer used to measure stars.
However, Gould's delay in applying for a patent allowed physicist Charles Townes, also at Columbia, to file a patent application for the "optical maser,' Townes's term for the laser.
A group led by Charles Townes of the University of California at Berkeley speculates that the object has a large mass, which is typical of a black hole.
 
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