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By The New York Times
January 29, 2015
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0001/8640/12915.nytimes.charles_townes_laser.large.jpg?1476779487&1422555992 "Charles Townes in 1955")
Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure time precisely, survey planets and galaxies, and even witness the birth of stars, died on Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. He was 99.
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