"Nobel Prize in Physics" Charles Townes Hand Signed 7X5 B&W Photo Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Nobel Prize in Physics" Charles Townes Hand Signed 7X5 B&W Photo.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Charles Hard Townes
(July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American
physicist
and inventor of the
maser
and
laser
. 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
Nobel Prize in Physics
during 1964 with
Nikolay Basov
and
Alexander Prokhorov
. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US President from Harry Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999). He directed the US government Science and Technology Advisory Committee for the Apollo flights, which was effective at making the program a success on schedule without exceeding its budget. After becoming a professor of the University of California at Berkeley during 1967, he began an astrophysical program that produced several important discoveries, for example, the
black hole
at the center of the
Milky Way
galaxy.