21. PhysicsWeb - Nobel Laureates Oppose War Against Iraq Fortyone American nobel laureates have signed a declaration opposing war Robert Schrieffer,Jack Steinberger, Joseph H Taylor Jr., charles H townes , Daniel C http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/1/14

Advanced site search news January February March April May June July August September October November December Show summaries quick search Search the news archive. Previous News for January 2003 Next Nobel laureates oppose war against Iraq 29 January 2003 Forty-one American Nobel laureates have signed a declaration opposing war with Iraq. The declaration was organised by Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and former adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon. The signatories include 19 winners of the physics prize. The declaration reads: "The undersigned oppose a preventive war against Iraq without broad international support. Military operations against Iraq may indeed lead to a relatively swift victory in the short term. But war is characterized by surprise, human loss and unintended consequences. Even with a victory, we believe that the medical, economic, environmental, moral, spiritual, political and legal consequences of an American preventive attack on Iraq would undermine, not protect, US security and standing in the world." The signatories include Norman Ramsey, who worked on the Manhattan Project, and Charles Townes, a former research director of the Institute for Defense Analyses at the Pentagon. Townes was also chairman of a federal panel that studied nuclear warheads.

22. General - Charles Townes Biography charles H. townes Biography. Dr. townes' principal scientific work is in microwavespectroscopy, nuclear He received the nobel Prize in 1964 “for fundamental http://www.seti-inst.edu/about_us/info_for_media/press_releases/townes/bio.html

Charles H. Townes Biography At the University of California, Townes returned to full-time research and teaching, and pursued new interests in astrophysics. His work there in radio astronomy resulted in the first detection of polyatomic molecules in interstellar clouds and the use of molecular spectra to characterize these dark clouds, now an important astronomical field. In the infrared region, he has worked primarily on high spectral and spatial resolution for astronomical observations. Much of this work has been directed towards understanding the galactic center. Since 1988, Townes has been using a pair of moveable telescopes for obtaining very high angular resolution of astronomical objects at infrared wavelengths by spatial interferometry. A third telescope for this system will soon be installed. During much of his career, Townes has been active as a government advisor. He was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1965 to 1969, and vice chairman of that group during the second half of his term. He was chairman of the technical advisory committee for the Apollo Program until shortly after the first successful lunar landing. More recently, he has chaired committees on Strategic Weapons and the MX missile.

23. Townes Receives 2002 Drake Award The SETI Institute has awarded the 2002 Frank Drake Award for Innovation in SETIand Life in the Universe Research to charles H. townes, nobel Laureate and http://www.seti-inst.edu/about_us/info_for_media/press_releases/townes_drake_awa

Statement of Purpose Institute History Leadership, Management, Staff Endowed Chairs ... Contact Us Printer Friendly Version Press Releases December 10, 2002 Contact Information Images Charles Townes Receives SETI Institute's 2002 Drake Award The prize consists of a cash stipend and a special award, and will be presented at a ceremony in the spring of 2003. Townes is the second recipient of the Drake Award, which was launched in 2001 with a presentation ceremony honoring its namesake, Dr. Frank Drake. Townes is the first honoree selected from a pool of candidates whose submissions were solicited by the Institute. The recipient of numerous awards and 25 honorary doctorate degrees throughout his career, Townes' principal scientific work is in microwave spectroscopy, nuclear and molecular structure, quantum electronics, radio astronomy and infrared astronomy. He holds both the original patent for the maser, and (with Arthur Schawlow) the original laser patent. In 1964, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electronics, which led to the construction of maser and laser oscillators and amplifiers. Acknowledging that radio technology matured more quickly than optical, Townes consistently maintained that other technologically advanced civilizations could exploit the optical and infrared spectrum for communications just as readily as the microwave spectrum. In two later papers, one published in 1982 and another in 1993, Townes compared the relative strengths and liabilities of optical and radio SETI, concluding that both research methods should be conducted.

24. Brief History Of Laser 1951, charles H townes, The inventor of the MASER (Microwave Amplification of Stimulated Firstdevice based on stimulated emission, awarded nobel prize 1964. http://www.lasers.org.uk/laser_welding/briefhistory.htm

A Brief History of Lasers: The principle of the laser was first known in 1917, when physicist Albert Einstein described the theory of stimulated emission. However, it was not until the late 1940s that engineers began to utilize this principle for practical purposes. At the onset of the 1950's several different engineers were working towards the harnessing of energy using the principal of stimulated emission. At the University of Columbia was Charles Townes, at the University of Maryland was Joseph Weber and at the Lebedev Laboratories in Moscow were Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai G Basov. At this stage the engineers were working towards the creation of what was termed a MASER (Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation), a device that amplified microwaves as opposed to light and soon found use in microwave communication systems. Townes and the other engineers believed it to be possible create an optical maser, a device for creating powerful beams of light using higher frequency energy to stimulate what was to become termed the lasing medium. Despite the pioneering work of Townes and Prokhorov it was left to Theodore Maiman in 1960 it invent the first Laser using a lasing medium of ruby that was stimulated using high energy flashes of intense light (see example) Both Townes and Prokhorov were later awarded the Nobel Science Prize in 1964 for their endeavours.

25. OUP USA: How The Laser Happened How the Laser Happened Adventures of a Scientist charles H. townes charles townesis one A nobel laureate, townes was also the first scientist to accept http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195122682.html

Physics or Browse by Subject cloth In Stock Standard paper In Stock Standard Table of Contents How the Laser Happened Adventures of a Scientist CHARLES H. TOWNES insight into the Star Wars policy by one of the early advisors insight into the processes behind research and scientific innovations Charles Townes is one of the leading figures in twentieth-century physics, intentor of the maser, co-inventor of the laser, and a pioneer in microwave spectroscopy for molecular and nuclear physics and in the use of radio and infrared spectroscopic techniques for astronomy. A Nobel laureate, Townes was also one of the first academic scientists to accept a full-time position advising the Executive Branch during the Cold War, and was founder of the Jasons, an influential group of scientists independently advising the government. He also served on the Board of General Motors. 208 pp.; 13 halftones, 3 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512268-2 Publication dates and prices are subject to change without notice. Prices are stated in US Dollars and valid only for sales transacted through the US website. Please note: some publications for sale at this website may not be available for purchase outside of the US.

26. Truth Now 41+ nobel Laureates In Science Economics Sign Declaratio Against a War the Hiroshimabomb and later advised NATO; and charles H. townes, former research http://www.truth-now.com/nobel_laureates_dissent.htm

operation truth-now.com diffusing weapons of mass distraction with full spectrum awareness and raw truth broadcasting The Headlines Watchdog Network Quotes Sticker.Tshirt.Contraband Pubs Forum Until our web team evolves and our database is completely designed, we ask truth-troopers who want to contribute new data sources or updates, to please email them to us. The signers included Democrats and Republicans alike as well as several who have advised the federal government or played important roles in national security. Among them are Hans A. Bethe, an architect of the atom bomb; Walter Kohn, a former adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon; Norman F. Ramsey, a Manhattan Project scientist who readied the Hiroshima bomb and later advised NATO; and Charles H. Townes, former research director of the Institute for Defense Analyses at the Pentagon and chairman of a federal panel that studied how to base the MX missile and its nuclear warheads. http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/national/28NOBE.html

27. Caltech Academic Village - Nobel Laureates Ahmed H. Zewail, Chemistry 1999 Faculty. nobel Laureates, Retired Facultyand Alumni Anderson 1975. townes, charles H. (PhD '39) Physics 1964. http://bookstore.caltech.edu/nobellist.html

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29. Laser Pioneer Arthur Schawlow Dies - June, 1999 research and winner of a nobel Prize in physics, Arthur L. Schawlow, died April 28at age 77 in Palo Alto, Calif. Schawlow worked with charles H. townes in the http://www.photonics.com/spectra/news/XQ/ASP/pbullid.169/QX/read.htm

SPECTRA HOME CURRENT ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ... SUBSCRIBE FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS email photonics@ laurin.com Presstime Bulletin June 1999 Edition Send News to photonics@laurin.com or submit online here Sponsored by: Laser Pioneer Arthur Schawlow Dies One of the pioneers of laser research and winner of a Nobel Prize in physics, Arthur L. Schawlow, died April 28 at age 77 in Palo Alto, Calif. Schawlow worked with Charles H. Townes in the 1950s on a device that evolved into a laser. The pair collaborated at Columbia University in New York, where they initially gained recognition for work on the maser, a microwave predecessor of the laser. Their goal was to invent a device that would amplify light the way a maser amplified microwaves. When they published their findings in 1957, the work sparked an international race to build the first working laser, a feat accomplished in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman in Malibu, Calif. During his career, Schawlow worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he studied superconductivity, and worked on laser and microwave spectroscopy at Stanford University. In the years that followed, he and Townes would each win a Nobel award. Schawlow shared a Nobel Prize in 1981 with Nicolaas Bloembergen of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for contributions to laser spectroscopy. Return to the previous page Browse Accent on Applications Presstime Bulletin Article Abstracts BusinessWorld ... Spectra Contents top of page Photonics.com: Optical, Laser and Fiber Optics Resource

30. The Manila Times Internet Edition | LIFE & TIMES > Nobel Laureates Oppose War Ag Fortyone American nobel laureates have signed a declaration opposing war with Schrieffer,Jack Steinberger, Joseph H. Taylor Jr., charles H. townes, Daniel C http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2003/mar/11/life/20030311lif4.html

Home About Us Contact Us Subscribe ... Sports Tuesday, March 11, 2003 SCIENCE Nobel laureates oppose war against Iraq By Belle Dumé Forty-one American Nobel laureates have signed a declaration opposing war with Iraq. The declaration was organized by Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and former adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon. The signatories include 19 winners of the physics prize. The declaration reads: “The undersigned oppose a preventive war against Iraq without broad international support. Military operations against Iraq may indeed lead to a relatively swift victory in the short term. But war is characterized by surprise, human loss and unintended consequences. Even with a victory, we believe that the medical, economic, environmental, moral, spiritual, political and legal consequences of an American preventive attack on Iraq would undermine, not protect, US security and standing in the world.” The signatories include Norman Ramsey, who worked on the Manhattan Project, and Charles Townes, a former research director of the Institute for Defense Analyses at the Pentagon. Townes was also chairman of a federal panel that studied nuclear warheads.

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LBNL Image Library Collection BERKELEY-LAB/PEOPLE/NOBEL-LAUREATES Charles Townes Image File Title Charles Townes Description Charles H. Townes was awarded the Michelson-Morley Award of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, on October 15, 1970. The award, consisting of a silver plaque and $5000, is presented to a scientist or engineer chosen for "his significant contribution to the knowledge and welfare of mankind." People Charles Townes Date Citation Caption Magnet, Vol. 14, Nos. 10-11, October-November 1970, p. 2 TEID Doc ID XBD9704-01944.TIF Fetch hi-resolution file(10.4M)

32. Princeton - News - Nobel Prize Winner To Deliver Annual Physics Department Lectu PRINCETON, NJ nobel Prize winner charles H. townes, a professor at the Universityof California at Berkeley, will speak on The Sociology of Science http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/00/q1/0225-townes.htm

News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Office of Communications Stanhope Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5264 Telephone 609-258-3601; Fax 609-258-1301 Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-5748 February 25, 2000 Nobel Prize Winner to Deliver Annual Physics Department Lecture PRINCETON, N.J. Nobel Prize winner Charles H. Townes, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak on "The Sociology of Science Illustrated by the Laser" in the annual Donald Ross Hamilton Lecture in physics March 2. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is geared to everyone with an interest in science. Townes holds the original patent for the maser, the predecessor of the laser; and with Arthur Schawlow, the original laser patent. He received the Nobel Prize in 1964 for his work in quantum electronics. Townes received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He has been a professor at Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, where he has pursued new interests in astrophysics. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Townes received the 1982 National Medal of Science and numerous other awards. The Donald Ross Hamilton Lecture honors the late Donald Hamilton, a Princeton University physicist and dean of the Graduate School.

33. 2000 Founders Award, Official Announcement charles H. townes, inventor of the laser and a professor townes developed the pathbreakingmaser-laser principle, which He was awarded the 1964 nobel Prize in http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4PRRJL?OpenDocument

34. 2000 Founders Award Acceptance Remarks charles H. townesRemarks made by charles H. townes on October 22 I feel sure Janskywould have received a nobel Prize if his discovery had been appreciated as http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4QFR6M?OpenDocument

35. Nobel Prize In Physics Since 1901 townes, charles H. 1965. http://www.planet101.com/nobel_physics_hist.htm

Nobel Prize in Physics since 1901 Year Winners Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Zeeman, Pieter Becquerel, Antoine Henri; Curie, Marie; Curie, Pierre Rayleigh, Lord John William Strutt Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton Thomson, Sir Joseph John Michelson, Albert Abraham Lippmann, Gabriel Braun, Carl Ferdinand Marconi, Guglielmo Van Der Waals, Johannes Diderik Wien, Wilhelm Dalen, Nils Gustaf Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike Laue, Max Von Bragg, Sir William Henry; Bragg, Sir William Lawrence Barkla, Charles Glover Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Stark, Johannes Guillaume, Charles Edouard Einstein, Albert Bohr, Niels Millikan, Robert Andrews Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg Franck, James; Hertz, Gustav Perrin, Jean Baptiste Compton, Arthur Holly; Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees Richardson, Sir Owen Willans De Broglie, Prince Louis-Victor Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Heisenberg, Werner Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice; Schroedinger, Erwin Chadwick, Sir James

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© g. Paul Bishop 1981 CHARLES H. TOWNES Charles (Hard) Townes Nobel Laureate Professor of Physics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley ARTICLE - 1 The Nobel Tradition at Berkeley Charles H. Townes: Physics, 1964 By Russell Schoch [Return to Section - 1] [Return to Index Page]

37. Section - 1 19672000. charles H. townes nobel Laureate Professor of Physics UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley ©1981-2000. Chester Bowles US http://www.gpaulbishop.com/GPB History/GPB Archive/Section - 1/section_-_1.htm

Aldous Huxley Author Allen Tate Poet Visiting Professor of English UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley Andrew C. Lawson Professor of Geology and Anthropology UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley Dr. Arthur Holly Compton Nobel Laureate Professor of Physics UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Professor and Chancellor WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - St. Louis Beniano Benvenuto Bufano Sculptor Cedric Wright Photographer Charles J. Hitch President of the University of California Charles H. Townes Nobel Laureate Professor of Physics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley Chester Bowles U.S. Ambassador to India Former Governor of Connecticut Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz United States Navy Christopher Isherwood Author Conor Cruise O'Brien, M.P. Historian and Critic Member of Parliament Ireland Czeslaw Milosz Nobel Laureate in Literature Professor of Slavic and Latin Languages UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Berkeley Darius Milhaud French Composer Professor of Music MILLS COLLEGE Dean Acheson U.S. Secretary of State

38. SOFIA People And Events Image Gallery 8 Dr. charles H. townes Dr. charles H. townes, nobel prizewinning physicist at theUniversity of California at Berkeley and experienced KAO observer, gave one http://sofia.arc.nasa.gov/Gallery/people/PP19970008.html

Dr. Charles H. Townes Dr. Charles H. Townes, Nobel prize-winning physicist at the University of California at Berkeley and experienced KAO observer, gave one of the keynote speeches at the dedication ceremony. Image #: Date: Credit: NASA Keywords: dedication charles towne EndKeywords: of 8

39. Nobel Physics Prize nobel Peace Prize for Physics. The USA. 1964, Nikolai Basov AleksandrM. Prokhorov charles H. townes, Russia Russia USA. 1965, http://www.geocities.com/Axiom43/nobelphysics.html

Nobel Peace Prize for Physics The Prize for Physics is the remaining of the original Prizes dating from 1901. Year Winner(s) Country W. C. Rontgen Germany H. A. Lorentz P. Zeeman Nertherlands Netherlands H. Becquerel P Curie Marie Curie France France France (Polish born) Lord Rayleigh (John W. Strutt) Great Britain P. Lenard Germany Joseph John Thomson Great Britain A. A. Michelson USA G. Lippmann France F. Braun G. Marconi Germany Italy J. D. van der Waals Netherlands W. Wien Germany G. Dalen Sweden H. Kamerlingh Onnes Netherlands M. von Laue Germany Sir William H. Bragg Sir William L. Bragg Great Brittain Great Britain No Award Made Charles G. Barkla Great Britain M. Planck Germany J. Stark Germany C. E. Guillaume France Albert Einstein Germany N. Bohr Denmark R. A. Millikan USA M. Siegbahn Sweden J. Franck G. Hertz Germany Germany J. Perrin

40. Threshold Of The New Millennium Sidebar 5 for a problem, remarked charles H. townes, member of the faculty of the Universityof California at Berkeley. In 1964, townes shared the nobel Prize in http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/pubs/spectrum/9910/tomosb5.html

Threshold of the new millennium go to previous page CHARLES H. TOWNES: How can we be wiser about decisions of what to pursue in science and technology? "IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE LASER, people kidded me that it was a solution looking for a problem," remarked Charles H. Townes, member of the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. In 1964, Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Soviet scientists Alexander Prokhorov and Nicolai Basov for fundamental work in quantum electronics, which led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle. "'What can it be used for?' they asked. Now, of course, we know that was a limited, shortsighted approach. But back then, nobody had any grasp of what the laser could do." In Townes's view, the unexpected richness of the laser's history in science and engineering points up a vital lesson: "As a society, we must be sure we don't focus all efforts just on things we are sure will pay off economically. We need to devote some resources to exploring things that may revolutionize our understanding. We must continually emphasize that, and take the risk. "Too often today you hear the argument that 'we have only limited dollars, so let's spend them on something useful.' Businesses especially have that viewpoint, because they must report their earnings every three monthsso they feel they have to look very short-term and get results quickly. Moreover, since a company executive is seldom in place for more than 10 years, he usually wants to do something during his tenure that looks good for him.

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