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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-)
Charles Hard Townes, Townes
physicist - a scientist trained in physics
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It's unclear why Betelgeuse has shrunk and whether it will later rebound, said Nobel laureate Charles Townes, retired from the University of California, Berkeley.
Betelgeuse shrinks by Cowen, Ron / Science News
To see this change is very striking," University of California, Berkley professor Charles Townes, who whon the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the laser, said in a statement.
Giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking: study by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The Nobel laureates who signed the letter include Kenneth Arrow and Finn Kydland (economics); Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Charles Townes (physics); Peter Agree, Robert Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Harold Kroto, Yuan Lee, John Polanyi, F Sherwood Rowland, Jens Skou and John Walker (chemistry); Paul Greengard, Roger Guillemin, François Jacob, Eric Kandel, Craig Mello, Richard Roberts, Phillip Sharp, Harold Varmus and Torsten Wiesel (physiology or medicine).
Free barefoot doctor, say Nobel winners by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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