CHARLES H. TOWNES - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 201348
Sale Price $270.00
Reg. $300.00
CHARLES H. TOWNES
Small signed b/w photograph by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of
physicist Charles H. Townes sitting at a desk with crossed arms, signed with his
"Best wishes". Townes shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physics for
building the first maser, a predecessor to the laser, and for demonstrating that
it was possible to construct a laser.
Inscribed photograph signed: "Best wishes to Evan!/Chas. H.
Townes". Black ink notation in unknown hand on verso. B/w, 7x5 overall,
5¾x4½ image, one surface. Photo by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories with black ink
photo credit stamp on verso. American physicist Charles Hard Townes,
(1915-2015), shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physics with Soviet scientists
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Nikolay G. Basov "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". Townes created the first
maser - a predecessor to the laser that amplified microwaves - with two students
in 1953. He and A. L. Schawlow also showed that it was possible to
construct a laser in 1958, two years before the first ruby laser was built by
Theodore Maiman. Lightly toned and bowed. Light scratch on image (not
visible head-on). Otherwise, fine condition.
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