Laser Inventor Charles Townes Dies at 99

[Rich Harman]

Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser and subsequently pioneered the use of lasers in astronomy, died early Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Oakland.

[AL Ursich]

Saw that TV Story too... Pretty Impressive.... RIP.

[Jeffrey Dewing]

I googled him. Interesting read...

[chris szlachetka]

Thank you Charles! RIP ⚡️

[Brett Luna]

Yep, Professor Townes laid a lot of the theoretical groundwork for the laser...but Theodore Maiman physically invented it, based on (and expanding on) Townes' work, which proposed a gas laser. Maiman demonstrated the solid state ruby laser. So they were both firsts...but Prof. Townes outlasted the lot I think. Ted Maiman died in 2007.