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SETI award honors laser Laureate Townes.(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Institute awards Charles Townes)(Brief Article)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has awarded the 2002 Frank Drake Award for Innovation in SETI and Life in the Universe Research to Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate and Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Townes received the award for his championing of optical SETI, efforts that culminated in the formal adoption of optical SETI as a search strategy by SETI scientists.
The prize consists of a cash stipend of $5000 and a special award to be presented in the spring of 2003. Townes is the second recipient of the Drake Award, which honors distinguished contributors to the scientific …
