1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him. - 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard. - 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise. - 4 The Laser Stabilitron. - 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds. - 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution. - 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets. - 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy. - 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes. - 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality. - 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited. - 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments. - 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy. - 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX. - 15 Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition. - 16 The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025? Bands of H2D and HD2. - 17 Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements. - 18 Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics. - 19 Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes' 80th Birthday. - 20 Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History. - 21 Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer's Disease. - 22 Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules. - 23 Lessons Learned. - 24 Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s. - 25 The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec. - 26 Microwave Spectroscopy the Maser and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia. - 27 The Role of Radioactive 14C and 26Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes. - 28 The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds. - 29 Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics. - 30 Possibility ofInfrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei. - 31 Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics. - 32 Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases. - 33 Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap. - 34 Infrared Emission and H2O Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei. - 35 Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since. - 36 The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its $$J = \frac{3}{2} \leftarrow \frac{1}{2}$$ Rotational Transition. - 37 Charlie Townes at Brookhaven. - 38 Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement. - 39 The Physics of Nerve Excitation. - 40 The Future of Science Education. - 41 Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers. - 42 Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles. - 43 Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia. - 44 Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser. - 45 Sgr A* A Starving Black Hole?. - 46 Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes. - 47 From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modern Nonlinear Optics. - 48 Industrial Research in Today's World. - 49 Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope. - 50 Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person. - 51 Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments. - 52 An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion. - 53 The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege. - 54 The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope. - 55 Astronomical Atmospheric and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer. - 56Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator. - 57 Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space. - 58 Beyond the South Pole. - 59 Townes and Nonlinear Optics. - 60 Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S. - 61 A Visit to America. - 62 Review of Some Photothermal Effects. - 63 Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light. - 64 Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field. Language: English