An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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TOWNES, Charles Hard

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The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.

Physical Review, 99, 1264-1274, 1955.

In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle."

Order of authorship in the original publication: Gordon, Zeiger, Townes.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments › Lasers, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physics (selected)