Charles Townes, the Nobel laureate acclaimed for his pioneering work on lasers and nonlinear optics, sadly passed away in January this year. Here I offer personal reflections of working with him as one of his graduate students.
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Garmire, E. Memories of Charles Townes. Nature Photon 9, 347–350 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.91
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