{"id":2914,"date":"2025-09-08T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:31:11","slug":"charles-townes-dies-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/2025\/09\/08\/charles-townes-dies-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Townes dies at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Hard_Townes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Townes<\/a>, the inventor of the concept of the laser, after whom the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/townes.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townes Laser Institute<\/a>\u00a0is named, died yesterday (January 27, 2015) at the age of 99. \u00a0He recently was failing in health and died on the way to the hospital. We will all remember his last visit to UCF in 2012 for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/partnerships\/affiliates\/affiliatesday2012\/\">CREOL\u2019s 25th Anniversary<\/a>\u00a0and the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Townes Laser Institute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newscenter.berkeley.edu\/2015\/01\/27\/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99\/\">http:\/\/newscenter.berkeley.edu\/2015\/01\/27\/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/ucf-mourns-nobel-laureate-laser-pioneer-charles-h-townes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/ucf-mourns-nobel-laureate-laser-pioneer-charles-h-townes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Townes, the inventor of the concept of the laser, after whom the\u00a0Townes Laser Institute\u00a0is named, died yesterday (January 27, 2015) at the age of 99. \u00a0He recently was failing in health and died on the way to the hospital. We will all remember his last visit to UCF in 2012 for\u00a0CREOL\u2019s 25th Anniversary\u00a0and the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}