List of Famous people with last name Townes

Tenille Townes

Tenille Nicole Nadkrynechny

First Name Tenille

Born on January 20, 1994 (age 32)

Tenille Townes is a Canadian country music singer from Grande Prairie, Alberta. In 2011, at the age of 17, she was nominated for a Canadian Country Music Award for Female Artist of the Year.

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Charles Hard Townes

First Name Charles

Last Name Townes

Born on July 28, 1915

Died on January 27, 2015 (aged 99)

Born in United States of America, North Carolina

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US President from Harry Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999).

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