Charles Hard Townes

Charles H. Townes, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the laser, died yesterday at the age of 99.

I wrote about Professor Townes a few months ago:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2014/09/can-a-religious-believer-a-slave-of-superstition-legitimately-participate-in-modern-technology-which-is-a-product-of-rational-thought.html

He was not only a superb physicist but a vocally believing Christian.  “Impossible!” some will cry.  Those of us who care about actual empirical  evidence, however, grant the possibility — and, in fact, are well aware that he wasn’t unique.