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   Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to   
   the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs,   
   scan prices at the supermarket, measure time precisely, survey   
   planets and galaxies and even witness the birth of stars, died   
   on Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. He was 99.   
      
   His daughter Linda Rosenwein confirmed his death.   
      
   In 1964, Dr. Townes and two Russians shared the Nobel Prize in   
   Physics for their work on microwave-emitting devices, called   
   masers, and their light-emitting successors, lasers, which have   
   transformed modern communications, medicine, astronomy, weapons   
   systems and daily life in homes and workplaces.   
      
   Besides more than 125 scientific papers, he wrote “Microwave   
   Spectroscopy” (1955, with Dr. Schawlow), and two memoirs,   
   “Making Waves” (1995) and “How the Laser Happened: Adventures of   
   a Scientist” (2002).   
      
   His accolades included dozens of honorary degrees, the 1982   
   National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan, and the   
   2005 Templeton Prize for contributions to spiritual   
   understanding. Calling himself a Protestant Christian, he argued   
   that science and religion were compatible, saying there was   
   little difference between a scientific epiphany, like his 1951   
   maser brainstorm, and the religious experience of revelation.   
      
   “Understanding the order of the universe and understanding the   
   purpose in the universe are not identical,” he acknowledged in a   
   paper in 1966, “but they are not very far apart.”   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/us/charles-h-townes-physicist-   
   who-helped-develop-lasers-dies-at-99.html   
      
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