Townes  (tounz)  American physicist. He shared a 1964 Nobel Prize for developing the maser and laser principles of producing high-intensity radiation. |
| Townes (tounz) Pronunciation Key
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. |