UCF names new laser institute after Charles Townes.

Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) | May 4, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Chris Cobbs

May 4--It was barely 6 a.m., and his wife was still sleeping, so Charles Townes decided to skip breakfast and go for a walk.

A bit later on that morning in 1951, he was sitting on a Franklin Square park bench in Washington, D.C., when one of the great ideas in the history of science took shape in his mind.

"Suddenly, I realized what we could do to make molecules and atoms disobey the laws of thermodynamics," Townes recalled recently. "I sat for 15 or 20 minutes, then took an envelope out of my coat pocket and wrote down the ...

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