Amazing Light: A Volume Dedicated to Charles Hard Townes on His 80th Birthday

by Raymond Y. Chiao

Book Overview

This Festschrift is a collection of essays contributed by students, colleagues, and ad- mirers to honor an eminent scholar on a special anniversary: Charles Hard Townes on the occasion of his 80th birthday, July 28, 1995. In 1964, Townes shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Nikolai Gen- nadyevich Basov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461275210
• ISBN13: 9781461275213
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"