Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov

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”

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Soviet physicist affiliated with the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electronics that led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.