Physicist (28-Jul-1915 — 27-Jan-2015)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Charles H. Townes. Making Waves. Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics. 1994. 210pp.

Charles H. Townes. How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist. Oxford University Press. 2002. 200pp.

Frances Townes. Misadventures of A Scientist's Wife. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press. 2007. 213pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/Townes.html

AUTHORITIES

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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.706)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1470)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.1047)

9. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.737)

10. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.526)

11. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.486)

12. Britannica Almanac 2006 (p.112)

13. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.479)

14. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.134)

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