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Charles Hard Townes

(1915–2015) Physicist

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Charles Hard Townes was a physicist.

Quick Facts About Charles Hard Townes

Born: July 28, 1915
Died: January 27, 2015
Profession: Physicist

About Charles Hard Townes

[Wikidata] 20th-century American physicist... | [Wikipedia] Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and

Quotes by Charles Hard Townes

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

Charles Hard Townes

God

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I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

Charles Hard Townes

Atheism

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Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

Charles Hard Townes

Creation and evolution

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It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

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Discovery

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At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try…

Charles Hard Townes

Atheism

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The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great…

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Great idea

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Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and…

Charles Hard Townes

Atheism

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