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Townes
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Townes  (tounz), Charles Hard Born 1915.
American physicist. He shared a 1964 Nobel Prize for developing the maser and laser principles of producing high-intensity radiation.
Townes [taʊnz]
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(Biographies / Townes, Charles Hard (1915 M, US, SCIENCE: physicist) 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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Noun1.Townes - United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)
Charles Hard Townes, Charles Townes
physicist - a scientist trained in physics


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