First, You Explore: The Story of the Young Charles Townes (Young Palmetto Books)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 inventing. His passion for