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Townes

[ tounz ]

noun

  1. Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.


Townes

/ ٲʊԳ /

noun

  1. TownesCharles Hard1915MUSSCIENCE: physicist Charles Hard. born 1915, US physicist, noted for his research in quantum electronics leading to the invention of the maser and the laser; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1964
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Townes

/ tounz /

  1. American physicist who invented the maser, laying the foundation for the development of laser technology. In 1964 he shared with Russian physicists Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov the Nobel Prize for physics.
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Midnight Cowgirls, Ferry Townes and other acts on the Licorice Pizza label also graced the stage.

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Tenille Townes performs on the Mane Stage on the second day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

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In the mid-1990s I was working in the group of Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes in California with then student John D. Monnier.

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You can hear the doubt through Townes’s assured, haunting vocals when she sings, “The only house is sinking sand / So I’ve got to run, always on the run.”

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Haley’s disciplinary file showed that after Townes filed a complaint, he was written up for failing to fill out proper paperwork — not for use of force.

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