Charles H. Townes, 1964

Charles H. Townes, Aleksandr Prokharov & Nikolai Bosov

Aleksandr Prokhorov (left) and Nikolai Basov (right) show their laboratory to Charles Townes (center). The three shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1964 for their work on masers and lasers.

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