Charles Hard Townes
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1964for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 7/28/1915
- place of birth
- Greenville
- date of death
- 1/27/2015
- place of death
- Oakland
- Lived
- 99 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- physicist
- inventor
- field of work
- physics
- educated at
- Furman University
- California Institute of Technology
- Duke University
- Greenville High School
- employer
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Michigan
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- National Academy of Engineering
- start time: 1998
- Indian National Science Academy
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1956
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1999
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Astronomical Society
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1960
- American Physical Society
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- JASON
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/26/1983
- doctoral student
- Robert Lee White
- Ken Toshio Tatebe
- Jonathon Michael Weiner
- Eugene Serabyn
- Ali Javan
- James Power Gordon
- Robert G. Shulman
- Patrick Thaddeus
- Helmut W. Schulz
- Arno Allan Penzias
- Raymond Chiao
- Elsa M. Garmire
- Dan Watson
- John D. Monnier
- Everett A Lipman
- Robert W. Boyd
- notable work
- maser