How the laser happened : adventures of a scientist

Author / Creator

Townes, Charles H., author

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Charles Townes invented the maser and the laser, and was a pioneer in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This is the memoir of a life devoted to scien...

Charles Townes invented the maser and the laser, and was a pioneer in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This is the memoir of a life devoted to scientific research.

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