| Charles H. Townes  AKA Charles Hard Townes
Born: 28-Jul-1915
Birthplace: Greenville, SC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Invention of the maser and laser Father: Henry Keith Townes (attorney)
Mother: Ellen Hard
Wife: Frances H. Brown (m. 1941)
Daughter: Linda Rosenwein
Daughter: Ellen Anderson
Daughter: Carla Lumsden
Daughter: Holly
University: BA and BS, Furman University (1935)
University: MA, Duke University (1937)
University: PhD, California Institute of Technology (1939)
Professor: Columbia University (1948-)
Professor: Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961-)
Administrator: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961-)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1967-86)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1964 (with Aleksandr M. Prokhorov, Nikolay G. Basov)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1955
Rumford Prize 1961
IEEE Medal of Honor 1967
South Carolina Hall of Fame 1978
Templeton Prize 2005
Vannevar Bush Award 2006 (with Raj Reddy)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society
Federation of American Scientists
IEEE Fellow
JASON
National Academy of Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Author of books:
How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist (2002, memoir)
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