Nikolay Basov
December 14, 1922 –July 1, 2001
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher, Politician
Lived 78 years
- Born in
- Usman
- Passed away in
- Moscow
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Николай Геннадиевич Басов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.
Awards: USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Nobel Prize in Physics, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class, Kalinga Prize, Lomonosov Gold Medal, Lenin Prize, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal Education: National Research Nuclear University
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