Everyone has heard of lasers, but hardly anyone outside of a physics lab or a science fiction novel has heard of a maser. Despite the fact that it was the precursor of the laser, the maser has been ...

Charles H. Townes, a renowned physicist who invented the laser and the maser, died in Oakland, California on Tuesday at the age of 99. Townes’ inventions earned him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1964.

Charles Townes, the Columbia University physicist who transformed modern society with his invention of the maser and the laser, receiving the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his effort, has died. He ...

Leading light: Nobel laureate and laser pioneer Charles Townes has died at the age of 99. (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W F Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates) The US ...

A team of physicists has published a paper detailing how it developed the first ever maser to work at room temperature with the help of a homebaked crystal and a laser bought on eBay. Masers ...

You might have heard about lasers – devices that emit light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term laser, in fact, is an ...

Researchers have shown off a microwave-emitting version of the laser, called a maser, that works at room temperature. Masers were invented before the laser, but have languished in obscurity because ...

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist: born Atherton, Australia 11 July 1916; physicist, P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Soviet Academy of Science 1946-83, Vice-Director 1973-91; ...

[Credit: NPL] We’ve seen a lot of advancements in lasers, from ones that could one day start up a fusion reactor to ones that can transfer energy wirelessly. Now scientists from National Physical ...