Charles Townes

Five years before his revelation, Charles Townes had argued in a memo that microwave radio “has now been extended to such short wavelengths that it overlaps a region rich in molecular resonances, where quantum mechanical theory and spectroscopic techniques can provide aids to radio engineering.”

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

The physicist Charles Townes, who invented the maser a microwave forerunner of the laser, had spent years working with operations and devices to do with waves and atomic resonances: the separation of ions via fields, resonating chambers, sensitive high-frequency receivers and detectors, microwave spectroscopy.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

“The key revelation came in a rush,” says Charles Townes, of his insight into what would become the maser.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

I took cues from Charles Townes, who had just moved from MIT to Cal-Berkeley and wrote on this subject in Science.

Patrick Takahashi: Extraterrestrial Intelligence? 2009

There would probably never have been a laser were it not for the maser -- microwave amplification by stimulation emission of radiation, as Charles Townes christened it in 1954.

Let There Be Light 2008

March 24, 1959: New Jersey scientist Arthur Schawlow and his brother-in-law Charles Townes, of Bell Labs, receive a patent for something they call an "optical maser."

Yeah, Like Make a Dot on Someone's Head 2008

March 24, 1959: New Jersey scientist Arthur Schawlow and his brother-in-law Charles Townes, of Bell Labs, receive a patent for something they call an "optical maser."

March 2008 2008

But, other scientists, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow, did file for a patent on their similar but independent discovery of how to make a laser.

Archive 2007-11-01 Staq Mavlen 2007

But, other scientists, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow, did file for a patent on their similar but independent discovery of how to make a laser.

The Origin of the Laser & Why Super-Villians Are Born Staq Mavlen 2007

“Anyway, you ask a good question, so here is Nobel laureate Charles Townes on the topic of intelligent design and evolution.”

Nobel Laureates urge rejection of intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb 2005