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Science 15 August 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5328, p. 891
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5328.891
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Of Lasers and Prayer

Gregg Easterbrook

Charles Townes, who in 1964 shared with two Russian researchers the Nobel Prize for the invention of the laser, is a devout, though "non-doctrinaire" believer. He holds that science and religion are entering a cycle of reconciliation, as researchers find themselves up against seemingly unanswerable questions.

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