Carolus Townes

Res apud Vicidata repertae:

Nativitas: 28 Iulii 1915; Greenville
Obitus: 27 Ianuarii 2015; Quercupolis
Patria: Civitates Foederatae Americae

Officium

Munus: physicus, nuclear physicist, professor, inventor
Patronus: Universitas Californiensis, Universitas Michiganensis, Massachusettense Institutum Technologiae

Familia

Coniunx: Frances Brow

Memoria

Laurae: Guggenheim Fellowship, Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, Praemium Nobelianum physicae, Frederic Ives Medal, Stuart Ballantine Medal, Templeton Prize, SPIE Gold Medal, IEEE David Sarnoff Award, Lomonosov Gold Medal, Petrie Prize Lecture, IEEE Medal of Honor, Wilhelm Exner Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, National Medal of Science, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Rumford Prize, National Inventors Hall of Fame, IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, Young Medal and Prize, Mendel Medal, Richtmyer Memorial Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, Comstock Prize in Physics, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Science Writing Award, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, Remsen Award

Carolus Hard Townes (natus in urbe Greenville Carolinae Meridionalis die 28 Iulii 1915; mortuus Berkeleiae die 27 Ianuarii 2015) fuit physicus Americanus qui mechanicae quanticae peritus fuit. Alumnus antea universitatum Furman et Duke, gradum doctoris apud Institutum Technologiae Californiense attigit. Anno 1964 propter inventionem instrumenti laserici atque mesar ex unda micrometrica Nobelianum Physicae Praemium una cum Nicolao Basov et Alexandro Prochorow abstulit. Apud universitatem Californiensem professor physicae universitarius anni 1967 factus est Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum sodalis fuit.