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    Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he...
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    Harry Rhett Townes (September 18, 1914 – May 23, 2001) was an American actor who later became an Episcopalian minister. Harry Townes was born in Huntsville...
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  • effect was discovered in 1955 by American physicists Stanley Autler and Charles Townes. It is the AC equivalent of the static Stark effect which splits the...
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  • The Charles Hard Townes Award of Optica is a prize for quantum electronics, including laser physics. Awarded annually since 1981, it is named after the...
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    while the "Towns" part is derived from the code name the system was assigned while in development, "Townes". This refers to Charles Townes, one of the...
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  • eponymous album Townes (album), 2009 album by Steve Earle, dedicated to Townes Van Zandt Carol Lynn Townes, American gospel singer Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015)...
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    the widely used text Microwave Spectroscopy (1955) with Charles Townes. Schawlow and Townes were the first to publish the theory of laser design and...
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    was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated...
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    Charles Town is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 6,534 at the 2020 census. The city...
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    inventor Charles Townes, who was also a professor at Columbia and later won the 1964 Nobel prize for his work on the maser and the laser. Townes gave Gould...
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