A life in physics
Subtitle: Bell Telephone Laboratories and World War II, Columbia University and the laser, MIT and government service, California and research in astrophysics
By: Charles Hard Townes ; with an introduction by Arthur L. Schawlow ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1991-1992. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Contributors: Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-; Riess, Suzanne B.; Townes, Frances Brown, 1916-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 691
Subjects: Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.; Columbia University. Radiological Research Laboratory.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics.; Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Physicists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews.; Physics -- Research -- United States.; Astrophysics -- Research -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.; Patents -- United States.; Microwave spectroscopy.; Scientists in government -- United States.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Townes discusses his family background in South Carolina, education at Furman, Duke, Caltech, Bell Telephone Laboratories; his career as a professor of physics and research Officer in the Navy including research in microwave spectroscopy, the maser and the laser, quantam physics, issues surrounding patents, his Nobel prize, Berkeley in the 60's, astrophysics and infrared work, among others. Includes interview with Townes' wife, Frances Brown Townes.