International Year of Linght and Charles Townes

06.02.2015 - 16:54
The year 2015 has been declared as the International Year of Light and light-based technologies at the 68th General Assembly of the UN. We will remember 12 eminent scientists of the 20th century, who had an indelible impact on the history of photonics and influenced, directly or indirectly, the activity of our institute within the 12 months of the International year of Light.

The first one of this series is Charles Hard Townes, who hared the 1984 Nobel Prize with N.G. Basov and A.M. Prokhorov for contributions to the development of quantum electronics and for the invention of the maser.


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