Died 2001-07-01.
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Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov 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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science · Soviet physicist (1922–2001) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · politician · also Nikolay Basov, Nicolay Gennadijevitj Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Basov
Born 14 December 1922 · Died 1 July 2001 · Q83557
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2001· 1 entry
1998· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (1997).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Edward Teller Award (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded USSR State Prize (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Kalinga Prize (1986).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid (1985).
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Awarded Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1985).
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Declared the Soviet Union was capable of matching SDI proposals made by the U
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1983· 1 entry
Basov signed a letter along with other Soviet scientists condemning the initiative, which was published in the New York Times
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1982).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1982).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1973–1988).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1969).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1969).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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Was elected a Member of the Presidium of the Academy (1967—1990), and since 1990 he was the councillor of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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1966· 1 entry
And realized experimentally the thin disk active mirror semiconductor lasers
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1964).
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Also led to new missile defense initiatives
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize (1959).
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1955· 1 entry
Designed a three-level laser, and in 1959 suggested constructing a semiconductor laser, which he built with collaborators in 1963
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1951· 1 entry
And became a member of parliament (the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet) in 1974
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1950· 3 entries
Studied at National Research Nuclear University (1950).
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Began his postgraduate studies at the MEPhI, although he worked on his Candidate of Sciences thesis at the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI)—under the supervision of Mikhail Leontovich and Alexander Prokhorov—receiving
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Basov married Ksenia Tikhonovna, who was also a physicist
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1945· 1 entry
Basov entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI)
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1943· 1 entry
Left the academy and served in the Red Army participating in the Second World War with the 1st Ukrainian Front
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1941· 1 entry
In Voronezh, and was later called for military service at the Kuibyshev Military Medical Academy
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-12-14.
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