About Townes
Students

The following is a list of Charles Townes's Ph.D. graduates over the course of his teaching career. Included is their date of graduation and, where available, their current institutional affiliation.

• Sara Chaya Beck (December 1981)
• Albert Louis Betz (June 1977)
• Eric Edward Bloemhof (December 1984)
  Mount Palomar Observatory
• Robert William Boyd (December 1977)
  University of Rochester
• Albert Chi-Tong Cheung (December 1976)
  City University of Hong Kong
• Michael Fan-Ming Chui (December 1976)
• Aniruddha Das (May 1985)
  Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
• Neal John Evans (December 1973)
  University of Texas at Austin
• Samuel David Gasster (May 1985)
  The Aerospace Corporation
• Thomas Ronald Geballe (December 1974)
  Joint Astronomy Centre of Hawaii
• Paul Felix Goldsmith (December 1975)
  Cornell University
• Lawrence Thomas Greenberg (December 1977)
  The Aerospace Corporation
• James Zachary Holtz (September 1971)
• Paul Aloysius Jaminet (May 1992)
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Michael Allan Johnson (December 1975)
• John Howard Lacy (December 1979)
  University of Texas at Austin
• Everett Arthur Lipman (Fall 1998)
  UC Santa Barbara
• Anthony James Mannucci (December 1989)
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Demetrios Nicholas Matsakis (December 1978)
  U.S. Naval Observatory
• John David Monnier (Fall 1999)
  University of Michigan
• John Jacob Ottusch (May 1985)
  HRL Laboratories
• Eugene Serabyn (December 1984)
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Howard Alan Smith (December 1976)
  Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Edmund Charles Sutton (June 1979)
• Dan Martin Watson (June 1983)
  University of Rochester
• Jonathon Michael Weiner (Fall 2002)
• Eric Robert Wollman (December 1976)
  Bates College