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Remembering Physicist Charles Townes

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Charles Townes was a UC Berkeley professor and physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1964 for his role in developing the laser. He said he never worked a day in his life -- he was just having fun doing physics. Townes died this week in Oakland at the age of 99.

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