Charles Hard Townes (28 Julai 1915 – 27 Januari 2015) ialah ahli fizik Amerika Syarikat[1][2] dan pencipta maser. Townes bekerja pada teori dan penerapan maser, yang mana beliau memperoleh hak paten asas, dan kerja lain dalam elektronik kuantum yang berkaitan dengan kedua-dua alat maser dan laser.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Beliau berkongsi Hadiah Nobel dalam Fizik bersama Nikolay Basov dan Alexander Prokhorov.[12][13] Townes ialah penasihat kepada Kerajaan Amerika Syarikat, bertemu dengan setiap Presiden AS dari Harry Truman (1945) ke Bill Clinton (1999).

Charles H. Townes

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  • Gordon, J.; Zeiger, H.; Townes, Charles (1955). "The Maser—New Type of Microwave Amplifier, Frequency Standard, and Spectrometer". Physical Review. 99 (4): 1264–1274. Bibcode:1955PhRv...99.1264G. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.99.1264.
  • Shimoda, K.; Wang, T.; Townes, Charles (1956). "Further Aspects of the Theory of the Maser". Physical Review. 102 (5): 1308–1321. Bibcode:1956PhRv..102.1308S. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.102.1308.
  • Schawlow, Arthur; Townes, Charles (1958). "Infrared and Optical Masers". Physical Review. 112 (6): 1940–1949. Bibcode:1958PhRv..112.1940S. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.112.1940.
  • Townes, Charles (1999). How the Laser Happened: Adventures Of a Scientist. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512268-8.
  • Townes, Charles; Schawlow, Arthur (1955). Microwave Spectroscopy. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-065095-4.
  • Townes, Charles (1995). Making Waves. American Institute of Physics Press. ISBN 978-1-56396-381-0.

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  1. ^ "Charles H. Townes — Biographical". Nobelprize.org. 2006. Dicapai pada 2014-07-29.
  2. ^ "Remembering Charles Townes". Furman University. 2015-01-27. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2015-01-28. Dicapai pada 2015-01-27.
  3. ^ Bertolotti, Mario (2004). The History of the Laser. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-7503-0911-0.
  4. ^ Bromberg, Joan (1991). The Laser in America, 1950–1970. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-585-36732-3.
  5. ^ Chiao, Raymond, penyunting (1996). Amazing Light: A Volume Dedicated To Charles Hard Townes On His 80th Birthday. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-94658-0.
  6. ^ Chiao, Raymond, penyunting (2005). Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, A Volume Dedicated to Charles Hard Townes on his 90th Birthday. Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-88239-2.
  7. ^ Haynie, Rachel (2014). First, You Explore: The Story of Young Charles Townes (Young Palmetto Books). University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-343-7.
  8. ^ Hecht, Jeff (2005). Beam: The Race to Make the Laser. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514210-5.
  9. ^ Hecht, Jeff (1991). Laser Pioneers. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-336030-4.
  10. ^ Taylor, Nick (2000). Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-83515-0.
  11. ^ Townes, Frances (2007). Misadventures of a Scientist's Wife. Regent Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-128-7.
  12. ^ Boyd, Robert (2015). "Dr. Charles H. Townes (1915-2015) Laser co-inventor, astrophysicist and US presidential adviser". Nature. 519 (7543): 292. Bibcode:2015Natur.519..292B. doi:10.1038/519292a. PMID 25788091.
  13. ^ "Nobel laureate and laser inventor, Charles Hard Townes, dies at 99". Berkeley.edu. 2015-01-27. Dicapai pada January 27, 2015.

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