Contact: Robert Sanders
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Charles Townes, University of California - Berkeley

Caption: UC Berkeley physicist Charles Townes, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser, cleans one of the large mirrors of the Infrared Spatial Interferometer. The ISI is on the top of Mt. Wilson in Southern California.

Credit: Cristina Ryan (2008)

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