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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov..Inventor of Laser and Maser

Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov

Born 14 December 1922(1922-12-14)
Usman, Russia
Died 1 July 2001(2001-07-01) (aged 78)
Fields Physics
Institutions Lebedev Physical Institute
Alma mater Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Known for Invention of lasers and masers
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)
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.[1]

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