Charles H. Townes
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Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated
Townes in 1983
King Gustaf VI Adolf, Frances Townes and Alexander Prokhorov at the Nobel Prize banquet in 1964
Daughters of Townes in Sweden in 1964
Alexander Prokhorov
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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnet
Charles H. Townes
…and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the U.S. Government, meeting every President from Harry S. Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999). Townes directed the U.S…
Prokhorov in 1964
Basov and Prokhorov with their wives in Stockholm in 1964
Alexander Prokhorov on 2016 postage stamp of Russia