But it is as the co-inventor of the maser and laser for which Townes will be most remembered in the scientific community. In 1954, the maser (a laser operating at microwave frequencies) was ...

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 ...

But Dr. Townes — who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics with Soviet scientists Nicolay G. Basov and Alexander M. Prokhorov — was chiefly responsible for the maser. The concept that led to ...

Townes won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for his maser research. He met the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Norway that year when King was awarded to Nobel Peace Prize. "They were introduced to each ...

The revelation led Townes and his students to build a device in 1954 they dubbed a maser, for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Four years later, he and a brother-in-law ...

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 ...

The revelation led Townes and his students to build a device in 1954 they dubbed a maser, for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Four years later, he and a brother-in-law ...

Townes thought up the maser–or, Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation–while sitting on a park bench in Washington in 1951. As The New York Times explains, “it would use ...

Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited with the invention of the laser and its predecessor — the maser — died in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday. Townes’ health had been ...

J. Zeiger, Townes was the first to create a device capable of harnessing ammonia molecules to amplify microwave frequencies to around 24.0 gighertz. The device in question was dubbed a maser ...