Townes, Charles H.
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1991-1992.
Townes discusses his family background in South Carolina, education at Furman, Duke, Caltech, Bell Telephone Laboratories; his career as a professor of physics and research Officer in the Navy including research in microwave spectroscopy, the maser and the laser, quantam physics, issues surrounding patents, his Nobel prize, Berkeley in the 60's, astrophysics and infrared work, among others. Includes interview with Townes' wife, Frances Brown Townes.
Townes, Charles H.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University. Center for Integrated Science & Engineering.
Duke University.
Furman University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States. Navy
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.
Physicists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews.
Physics -- Research -- United States.
Astrophysics -- Research -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
Patents -- United States.
Microwave spectroscopy.
Scientists in government -- United States.
Nobel Prizes.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Townes, Charles H.
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999
Riess, Suzanne B.
Townes, Frances Brown, 1916-
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
University history series (Bancroft Library)
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA