First, You Explore: The Story of the Young Charles Townes

by Rachel Haynie and Douglas E. Haynie

Book Overview

An inspirational biography of the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the laser

"Do exploration. Do things that are new and different."

This is the philosophy that Charles H. Townes has lived by since he was a young boy growing up on a small farm in Greenville, South Carolina. While tending to chores, exploring the outdoors, and tinkering with broken tools and equipment, Townes began what became a lifelong love of exploring and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611173442
• ISBN13: 9781611173444
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.7" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7