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Biography

American physicist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US president from Harry S. Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999). Townes was married once and had four children. He died at the age of 99 in Oakland, California on 27 January 2015. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less