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Nobel Prizes

JAN 01, 1965
Physics Today

On December 10, in Stockholm, the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded jointly to Charles H. Townes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who received half of the $53 000 prize money, and to Nikolai G. Basov and Aleksandr M. Prokhorov of the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow, who shared the other half. The three men were honored for “fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics which led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser‐laser principle”.

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