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Nobel Prize in Physics 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"

Charles H. Townes
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Button CA - University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Button AA - Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Button WA - Columbia University & Bell Labs, Naperville, Illinois, USA
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"for basic researches in the field of experimental physics, which led to the discovery of the maser and the laser"

Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
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Button CA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Button WA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences
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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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Button CA - Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Button AA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Charles H. Townes:

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Explanation of Institutional Affiliations:
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The Laureate's current or last affiliation.
Award Affiliation (AA)
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Work Affiliation (WA)
Where the actual Nobel work was performed. Particularly in recent years, work leading to experimental discoveries is often conducted at one of a few large physics laboratories in the world.

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