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L-R: Gerhard Dieke, Samuel Goudsmit, Jan Tinbergen, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Kronig, Enrico Fermi - Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Fermi Film Collection, Goudsmit Collection

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Original masers of Dr. Charles H. Townes - credit: Photograph by J. J. Barton, The Franklin Institute, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives