Charles H. Townes

1915 – 2015

American physicist involved in the development of the laser

• How the Laser Happened
• Microwave spectroscopy [by] C.H. Townes [and] A.L. Schawlow
• A life in physics
• Making waves
• The Galactic center
• Circular of the Bureau of Standards No. 518
• Sociology and unpredictability in the growth of science and technology