Charles H. Townes

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1964

Production of Coherent Radiation by Atoms and Molecules

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

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