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| Townes, Charles Charles Townes
Maser
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Townes is a Nobel Prize winning physicist
(1964), inventor, and Irish American.
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His study of and
investigation of the properties of microwaves helped him
invent the maser. A maser amplifies electromagnetic
waves and was the basis for the laser.
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Townes holds patents for both the maser
and the laser.
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At the age of 89, Mr. Townes won the
2005 Templeton Prize.
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