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Nikolay Basov

Soviet physicist

Died when: 78 years 199 days (942 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Никола́й Генна́диевич Ба́сов; 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.


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