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Charles Hard Townes

Affiliations: 
1939-1947 Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, United States 
 1948-1961 Columbia University, New York, NY 
 1961-1967 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
 1967-1986 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
microwave physics, masers and lasers
Website:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1964/townes-bio.html
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(1915 - 2015)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/49695.html
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/01/27/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99/
https://baas.aas.org/pub/charles-h-townes-1915-2015
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3199n627&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text
https://www.aip.org/commentary/lighting-way-innovation
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Parents

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William Ralph Smythe grad student 1939 Caltech
 (Concentration of the heavy isotope of carbon and measurement of its nuclear spin)

Children

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Benjamin James Spinks Pope research assistant UC Berkeley
Elsa Rosenwasser grad student Columbia
Mirek Stevenson grad student Columbia
Robert G. Shulman grad student 1949 Columbia
Walter David Knight grad student 1950 Duke
Ze'ev Lev grad student 1950 Columbia
Stanley Geschwind grad student 1951 Columbia
Paul P. Kisliuk grad student 1953 Columbia
Arnold Honig grad student 1954 Columbia
Ali Mortimer Javan grad student 1954 Columbia
T. Michael Sanders grad student 1954 Columbia
Robert Lee White grad student 1954 Columbia
James Power Gordon grad student 1955 Columbia
Alan Hildreth Barrett grad student 1956 Columbia
George Christ Dousmanis grad student 1956 Columbia
Fred M. Johnson grad student 1958 Columbia
James Fulton Lotspeich grad student 1958 Columbia
Joseph Anthony Giordmaine grad student 1960 Columbia
Leonard Erwin Alsop grad student 1961 Columbia
Herbert Lashinsky grad student 1961 Columbia
Patrick Thaddeus grad student 1961 Columbia
David L. Carter grad student 1962 Columbia
Arno A. Penzias grad student 1962 Columbia
Isaac D. Abella grad student 1963 Columbia
Herman Z. Cummins grad student 1963 Columbia
Harold Lecar grad student 1963 Columbia
Franklin R. Nash grad student 1963 Columbia
William Kenneth Rose grad student 1963 Columbia
Raymond Y. Chiao grad student 1965 MIT
Paul A Fleury grad student 1965 MIT
Elsa Garmire grad student 1965 MIT (E-Tree)
Neal J. Evans grad student 1968-1973 UC Berkeley
Thomas Ronald Geballe grad student 1974 UC Berkeley
Paul F. Goldsmith grad student 1975 UC Berkeley
Howard Alan Smith grad student 1976 UC Berkeley
Eric Robert Wollman grad student 1976 UC Berkeley
Albert L. Betz grad student 1977 UC Berkeley
Robert William Boyd grad student 1977 UC Berkeley
Demetrios Nicholas Matsakis grad student 1978 UC Berkeley
John Howard Lacy grad student 1979 UC Berkeley (Astronomy Tree)
Sara Chaya Beck grad student 1981 UC Berkeley
Dan Martin Watson grad student 1983 UC Berkeley
Samuel David Gasster grad student 1985 UC Berkeley
Andrew Irwin Harris grad student 1986 UC Berkeley
Everett A. Lipman grad student 1994-1998 UC Berkeley
John D. Monnier grad student 1993-1999 UC Berkeley (Astronomy Tree)
Jonathon M. Weiner grad student 2002 UC Berkeley
Ken Toshio Tatebe grad student 2007 UC Berkeley
David M. Rank post-doc UC Berkeley (Astronomy Tree)
Koichi Shimoda post-doc Columbia
Arthur Leonard Schawlow post-doc 1949-1951 Columbia
George R. Bird post-doc 1953 Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Herbert J. Zeiger post-doc 1951-1953 Columbia
K. Sigfrid Yngvesson post-doc 1968-1970 UC Berkeley (E-Tree)
Michael Wolock Werner post-doc 1969-1972 UC Berkeley
Robert A. McLaren post-doc 1973-1975 UC Berkeley
John W. V. Storey post-doc 1976-1980 UC Berkeley
William C. Danchi post-doc 1983-1986 UC Berkeley
Michael Danos research scientist 1952-1954 Columbia
Francesco De Martini research scientist 1964-1967 MIT (E-Tree)

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Charles A. Barth collaborator Bell Labs, Columbia, MIT, UC Berkeley
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Bloembergen N, Prokhorov AM, Porto SP, et al. (2015) From the archives: The future of lasers Physics Today. 68: 44-48
Willner AE, Byer RL, Chang-Hasnain CJ, et al. (2012) Optics and photonics: Key enabling technologies Proceedings of the Ieee. 100: 1604-1643
Willner AE, Byer RL, Chang-Hasnain CJ, et al. (2012) Prolog to the section on optics and photonics Proceedings of the Ieee. 100: 1600-1603
Ravi V, Wishnow EH, Townes CH, et al. (2011) The non-uniform, dynamic atmosphere of betelgeuse observed at mid-infrared wavelengths Astrophysical Journal. 740
Townes CH, Wishnow EH, Ravi V. (2011) The dust distribution immediately surrounding V hydrae Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 123: 1370-1373
Wishnow EH, Mallard W, Ravi V, et al. (2010) Mid-infrared interferometry with high spectral resolution Proceedings of Spie - the International Society For Optical Engineering. 7734
Wishnow EH, Townes CH, Walp B, et al. (2010) The dust surrounding w hydrae Astrophysical Journal Letters. 712: L135-L138
Townes CH, Wishnow EH, Hale DDS, et al. (2009) A systematic change with time in the size of betelgeuse Astrophysical Journal. 697: L127-L128
Woodruff HC, Ireland MJ, Tuthill PG, et al. (2009) The Keck Aperture Masking Experiment: Spectro-interferometry of three Mira variables from 1.1 to 3.8 μm Astrophysical Journal. 691: 1328-1336
Townes CH, Wishnow EH. (2008) Interferometry at mid-infrared wavelengths: The ISI system Proceedings of Spie - the International Society For Optical Engineering. 7013
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