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'''Charles Hard Townes''' (July 28, 1915) is an [[United States|American]] [[physicist]] and Nobel laureate in Physics in 1964.  

'''Charles Hard Townes''' (July 28, 1915) is an [[United States|American]] [[physicist]] and Nobel laureate in Physics in 1964. He also won the 2005 Templeton Prize.

Townes graduated with a bachelor's degrees in physics and modern languages from Furman University in 1935. He graduated ''summa cum laude''. He then completed his M.A. in physics from Duke University in 1936 and his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1939. His wrote a thesis on isotope separation and nuclear spins. He worked at Bells Lab and later joined the faculty at Columbia University. Townes headed the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C from 1959-1961 . From 1961-1967, he served as provost and professor of physics at MIT. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Currently, he works at Berkeley.

Townes graduated with a bachelor's degrees in physics and modern languages from Furman University in 1935. He graduated ''summa cum laude''. He then completed his M.A. in physics from Duke University in 1936 and his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1939. His wrote a thesis on isotope separation and nuclear spins. He worked at Bells Lab and later joined the faculty at Columbia University. Townes headed the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C from 1959-1961 . From 1961-1967, he served as provost and professor of physics at MIT. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Currently, he works at Berkeley.