Laureate Information

Personal details and nobel prizes.

Full name
Charles Hard Townes
Birthdate
1915-07-28
Birth Location
Greenville, SC, USA
Nobel Prizes
1
Wikidata
Q184566
Prize details
Awarding year
1964
Awarding date
unknown
Category
Physics
Motivation
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
Prize amount
273,000
Affiliations

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, MA, USA