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Charles Hard Townes

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Charles Hard Townes
Full Name
of the recipient		Charles Hard Townes
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1964
Share in Award50.0%
Award Shared withNicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (25.0%)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (25.0%)
Motivation
for the Award		for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Place of BirthGreenville, SC, United States USA
Date of Birth28 July 1915
Age
at the time of Award		48 years
Place of DeathBerkeley, CA, United States USA
Date of Death27 January 2015
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