Townes

[ tounz ]

noun

1. Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.

Townes

/ taʊnz /

noun

1. TownesCharles Hard1915MUSSCIENCE: physicist Charles Hard. born 1915, US physicist, noted for his research in quantum electronics leading to the invention of the maser and the laser; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1964

Townes

/ tounz /

1. American physicist who invented the maser, laying the foundation for the development of laser technology. In 1964 he shared with Russian physicists Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov the Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

Midnight Cowgirls, Ferry Townes and other acts on the Licorice Pizza label also graced the stage.

From Los Angeles Times

Tenille Townes performs on the Mane Stage on the second day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

From Los Angeles Times

In the mid-1990s I was working in the group of Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes in California with then student John D. Monnier.

From Scientific American

You can hear the doubt through Townes’s assured, haunting vocals when she sings, “The only house is sinking sand / So I’ve got to run, always on the run.”

From Washington Post

Haley’s disciplinary file showed that after Townes filed a complaint, he was written up for failing to fill out proper paperwork — not for use of force.

From Seattle Times