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==Personal life== In 1951, he married Aurelia Townes, younger sister of his postdoctoral advisor, Charles Townes. They had three children: Arthur Jr., Helen, and Edith. Arthur Jr. is [[autism|autistic]], with very little speech ability. Schawlow and Professor [[Robert Hofstadter]] at Stanford, who also had an autistic child, teamed up to help each other find solutions to the condition. Arthur Jr. was put in a special center for autistic individuals, and later, Schawlow put together an institution to care for people with autism in [[Paradise, California]]. It was later named the [[Arthur Schawlow Center]] in 1999, shortly before his death. Schawlow was a promoter of the controversial method of [[facilitated communication]] with patients of autism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/may5/schawlowobit-55.html |title=Arthur Schawlow, Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the laser, dies: 4/99 |publisher=News-service.stanford.edu |date=1999-05-05 |accessdate=2022-08-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://suedweb.syr.edu/thefci/2-1sch.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-09-12 |archive-date=2008-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723125029/http://suedweb.syr.edu/thefci/2-1sch.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He considered himself to be an orthodox Protestant Christian, and attended a Methodist church.<ref name=adherents/> Arthur Schawlow was an intense fan and collector of traditional American [[jazz]] recordings, as well as a supporter of instrumental groups performing this type of music. Schawlow died of [[leukemia]] in [[Palo Alto, California]], on April 28, 1999, at the age 77.
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