Nikolay Basov - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1964
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Nikolay Basov

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1964
for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle
Citizenship
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Languages
Russian
date of birth
12/14/1922
place of birth
Usman
date of death
7/1/2001
place of death
Moscow
Lived
78 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • inventor
  • politician
field of work
  • radiophysics
  • quantum electronics
  • physics
educated at
  • National Research Nuclear University
    • end time: 1950
employer
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • start time: 1948
  • National Research Nuclear University
position held
  • director
    • start time: 1973
    • end time: 1988
  • deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
member of
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/29/1962
    • end time: 7/1/1966
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 7/1/1966
doctoral student
  • Vladilen Letokhov
  • Oleg Krokhin
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