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"Do exploration. Do things that are new and different."
This is the philosophy that Charles H. Townes has lived by since he
was a young boy growing up on a small farm in Greenville, South
Carolina. While tending to chores, exploring the outdoors, and
tinkering with broken tools and equipment, Townes began what became
a lifelong love of exploring and inventing. His passion for new
things drove him to an amazing career of discoveries that have
changed the world.
All of us have been affected by Townes's work, especially his most
famous contribution to science: the laser. We're surrounded by
lasers, and we may not even realize it: they are in computers, DVD
players, atomic clocks, and barcode scanners at the grocery store
checkout counter. Doctors, police, astronomers, and even Hollywood
filmmakers use lasers regularly in their work. This extraordinary
technology was made possible by Townes's hard work and dedication
to the "new and different," winning him the Nobel Prize in physics
in 1964.
In First, You Explore, the first biography of Townes, Rachel Haynie
chronicles the scientist's boyhood fascination with the physical
world and his early reading, experiments, and exploration of his
surroundings on his family's farm. Now at age ninety-eight, Townes
is still actively involved in science and education, serving as a
guiding force for the planetarium and observatory at the South
Carolina State Museum.
This inspirational biography includes a timeline of Charles
Townes's major life events and additional biographical information
that parents and educators will find useful as teaching tools.
A concise history of Columbia Army Air Base, WWII B-25 training
center in the capital of South Carolina.
"Do exploration. Do things that are new and different."
This is the philosophy that Charles H. Townes has lived by since he
was a young boy growing up on a small farm in Greenville, South
Carolina. While tending to chores, exploring the outdoors, and
tinkering with broken tools and equipment, Townes began what became
a lifelong love of exploring and inventing. His passion for new
things drove him to an amazing career of discoveries that have
changed the world.
All of us have been affected by Townes's work, especially his most
famous contribution to science: the laser. We're surrounded by
lasers, and we may not even realize it: they are in computers, DVD
players, atomic clocks, and barcode scanners at the grocery store
checkout counter. Doctors, police, astronomers, and even Hollywood
filmmakers use lasers regularly in their work. This extraordinary
technology was made possible by Townes's hard work and dedication
to the "new and different," winning him the Nobel Prize in physics
in 1964.
In First, You Explore, the first biography of Townes, Rachel Haynie
chronicles the scientist's boyhood fascination with the physical
world and his early reading, experiments, and exploration of his
surroundings on his family's farm. Now at age ninety-eight, Townes
is still actively involved in science and education, serving as a
guiding force for the planetarium and observatory at the South
Carolina State Museum.
This inspirational biography includes a timeline of Charles
Townes's major life events and additional biographical information
that parents and educators will find useful as teaching
tools.
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