CHARLES H. TOWNES
Charles H. Townes (b. 1915 in Greenville, South Carolina) is Professor of Physics in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley. He was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 together with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922–2001) and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1916–2002) "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle."…