Townes Honored for Lifetime Achievement
ORLANDO, Florida, June 11, 2010 — The Laser Institute of America (LIA) will present its first Lifetime Achievement Award to laser pioneer Dr. Charles Townes at the 29th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO), which takes place Sept. 26 to 30 in Anaheim, Calif. Townes, 94, won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 "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,” according to ...