Complex sentence: Nobel laureates Isidor Isaac Rabi and Polykarp Kusch received the budget for their research from the same source as Townes; three months before the first successful experiment they tried to stop him: Look, you should stop the work you are doing.
Split into simpler sentences: Nobel laureates Isidor Isaac Rabi and Polykarp Kusch received the budget for their research from the same source as Townes. Three months before the first successful experiment they tried to stop him: Look, you should stop the work you are doing.