Student Education Repository (மாணவர்கள் கல்விக் களஞ்சியம்): Today (January 27, 2015) is the Memorial Day of Nobel Laureate Charles Hard Townes, who created the first ammonia maser.

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Today (January 27, 2015) is the Memorial Day of Nobel Laureate Charles Hard Townes, who created the first ammonia maser.

Today (January 27, 2015) is the Memorial Day of Nobel Laureate Charles Hard Townes, who created the first ammonia maser.

Charles Hard Townes was born on July 28, 1915, in Greenville, South Carolina. He is of Scottish, English, Welsh, Hujinot French and Scotch Irish descent. His father, Henry Keith Townes, was a lawyer. His mother is Ellen Summer Towns. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Townes Burman University and a bachelor's degree in modern languages in 1935. Townes graduated in 1937 with a master's degree in physics from Duke University. He later received his doctorate in 1939 from the California Institute of Technology. During World War II, Bell worked on telescope detector blasting laboratories.

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In 1950, Townes was appointed professor at Columbia University. From 1950 to 1952 he served as Managing Director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory. He was head of the physics department from 1952 to 1955. In 1953, Townes, James b. Gordon and Herbert J. He co-founded the first ammonia maser at Columbia University. Townes was founded in 1941 by Francis H. Schmidt, a social activist serving the homeless. Married Brown. He is known as one of the most important experimental physicists of the last century."

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He co-won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolai Pasov and Alexander Prokhorov. In 1956 he became a permanent member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1957 he was appointed a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1959 he received the Richmire Memorial Award. Townes was an adviser to the U.S. government from Harry Truman, President of the Republic in 1945, to Bill Clinton in 1999. Charles Hard Townes, the Nobel laureate who created the first ammonia mace, passed away on January 27, 2015, in California at the age of 99.

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Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.