Townes demonstrated his maser in 1954, and Bell Labs quickly picked up on the device, building their own version in 1957 using a solid crystal rather than ammonia gas. They were also quick to pick ...

Charles Townes played a crucial role in the invention ... We called the first one the maser, for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. You had that idea for the maser ...

Dr. Charles H. Townes, provost of M.I.T., received the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. He is credited with fathering maser theory, which has improved long distance communications, especially in ...

Nadya Anscombe talks to Charles Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the maser, the forerunner to the laser, to find out how the invention of the laser came about and how he struggled to ...