16 March 1925 in the Bronx, New York City, United States; d. 14 January 2011[1]) was an American physicist and co-developer of the first maser.
From 1953 until his retirement in 1990, he conducted research at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[citation needed] He lived most recently in Newton, Mass., and then in Dedham, Mass.
[citation needed] Between 1953-54, he worked alongside Charles H. Townes and James P. Gordon, who was then a PhD student of Townes, at Columbia University to develop the first maser.
[3] He and Gordon were the recipients of the first Charles Hard Townes Award in 1981, "For [their] contributions to the successful operations of the first quantum-electronics device, the ammonia maser".