When was the man the Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics was named after born?
Charles Hard Townes Award The Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers). It is named after Charles H. Townes and is awarded annually since 1981.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (] ; October 24, 1932 – May 18, 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.