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Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Full Name of the recipient | Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1964 |
Share in Award | 25.0% |
Award Shared with | Charles Hard Townes (50.0%) Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (25.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | 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 |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR |
Place of Birth | Usman, USSR (now known as Russia RUS) |
Date of Birth | 14 December 1922 |
Age at the time of Award | 41 years |
Place of Death | Moscow, Russia RUS |
Date of Death | 1 July 2001 |