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"This Festschrift is a collection of essays contributed by students, colleagues, and ad­ mirers to honor an eminent scholar on a special anniversary: Charles Hard Townes on the occasion of his 80th birthday, July 28, 1995. In 1964, Townes shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Nikolai Gen­ nadyevich Basov ""for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle. "" His contributions have covered a much wider area, however. His fruitful interests spanning several decades have included many scientific subjects, includ­ ing, microwave spectroscopy and astrophysics (other articles in this volume will expand further on this point). He has also contributed to public service, having served as the chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for NASA's Apollo program, and as a member and vice chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee. As the enormous breadth of contributions from his students shows, he has educated scholars who are now in a wide range of fields. The contributions from his many admirers, among whom are nine fellow Nobel laureates, attest to his impact on many disciplines ranging from electrical engi­ neering to medicine. His influence extends even to theology, as is indicated by one essay. The broadly international character of this Festschrift reflects his deep belief in the international, universal nature of science."

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Author:   Raymond Y. Chiao
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9781461275213

ISBN 10:   1461275210
Pages:   682
Publication Date:   22 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him.- 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard.- 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise.- 4 The Laser Stabilitron.- 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds.- 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution.- 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets.- 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy.- 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes.- 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality.- 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited.- 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments.- 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.- 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX.- 15 Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition.- 16 The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025? Bands of H2D and HD2.- 17 Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements.- 18 Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- 19 Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes’ 80th Birthday.- 20 Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History.- 21 Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease.- 22 Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules.- 23 Lessons Learned.- 24 Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s.- 25 The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec.- 26 Microwave Spectroscopy, the Maser, and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia.- 27 The Role of Radioactive 14C and 26Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes.- 28 The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds.- 29 Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics.- 30 Possibility ofInfrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei.- 31 Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics.- 32 Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases.- 33 Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap.- 34 Infrared Emission and H2O Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei.- 35 Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since.- 36 The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its $$J = \frac{3}{2} \leftarrow \frac{1}{2}$$ Rotational Transition.- 37 Charlie Townes at Brookhaven.- 38 Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement.- 39 The Physics of Nerve Excitation.- 40 The Future of Science Education.- 41 Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers.- 42 Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles.- 43 Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia.- 44 Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser.- 45 Sgr A* — A Starving Black Hole?.- 46 Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes.- 47 From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modern Nonlinear Optics.- 48 Industrial Research in Today’s World.- 49 Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope.- 50 Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person.- 51 Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments.- 52 An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion.- 53 The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege.- 54 The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope.- 55 Astronomical, Atmospheric, and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer.- 56Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator.- 57 Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space.- 58 Beyond the South Pole.- 59 Townes and Nonlinear Optics.- 60 Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S.- 61 A Visit to America.- 62 Review of Some Photothermal Effects.- 63 Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light.- 64 Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field.

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