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Townes Laser Institute Dedicated at CREOL
A new laser technology center of excellence within The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida was dedicated May 4 as the Townes Laser Institute, in honor of Nobel laureate Charles Hard Townes.
Townes made the fundamental inventions that led to the laser, and he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in1964.
The formal dedication occured at UCF’s Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) building lobby at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 4, 2007.
Townes presented a seminar at 11am on Friday, May 4, and received an honorary degree from UCF and spoke at a university commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 5, 2007.
The mission of the Townes Laser Institute, funded in part by a recent $4.5 million grant from the state of Florida to UCF’s Florida Photonics Center of Excellence, is to make UCF the premier institution in advanced laser technology in the United States. The center also will provide needed faculty and facilities in laser science and the next generation of laser technologies for medicine, advanced manufacturing tools and defense. Martin Richardson will be the institute’s principal investigator.
More information on the institute in the January issue of Highlights. Read a short Biography of Charles Townes. See pictures.
Contact: Jim Pearson, 407-823-6858, jpearson@creol.ucf.edu
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007
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