Charles H Townes--Noble Prize--(July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015)

Past TTM Success, Charles signed an index card for us in 2007.

Townes in 2007.
Born	Charles Hard Townes July 28, 1915 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	January 27, 2015 (aged 99) Oakland, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Furman University (B.S. & B.A.) Duke University (M.A.) Caltech (Ph.D.)
Known for	Lasers
Spouse(s)	Frances Brown (m. 1941⁠–⁠2015)  (his death)
Awards	Comstock Prize in Physics (1958) John J. Carty Award (1961) Stuart Ballantine Medal (1962) Young Medal and Prize (1963) Nobel Prize in Physics (1964) IEEE Medal of Honor (1967) ForMemRS (1976)[1] Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (1977) National Medal of Science (1982) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2000) Vannevar Bush Award (2006) SPIE Gold Medal (2010) Golden Goose Award (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Berkeley Bell Labs Institute for Defense Analyses Columbia University MIT University of Michigan
Thesis	Concentration of the heavy isotope of carbon and measurement of its nuclear spin (1939)