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Townes was discussed by SETI Institute’s SETI Science and Technology Working Group (“the SSTWG”) in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 469 (in Appendix Q entitled “SSTWG Biographies”) of the SETI Press softcover edition.
See also the references provided in the entry on Townes' article on Optical SETI.
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