Townes

American  

[tounz] / taʊnz /

noun

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

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Townes British  

/ taʊnz /

noun

1. 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

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Townes Scientific  

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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.

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Example Sentences

Hilary Duff and husband Matthew Koma welcomed the newest member of their family last week: baby Townes Meadow Bair.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

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 • Aug. 18, 2023

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 • Feb. 8, 2023

Punch in L3 and listen as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard trade verses on Townes Van Zandt’s “Pancho and Lefty,” while you dig into a smoked burger topped with poblano relish.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023

She's a pretty enough child, but nothing like what Townes thinks.

From Here and Hereafter by Pain, Barry