Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Nikolai Gennadievich Basov (Russian Николай Геннадиевич Басов) (December 14, 1922 – July 1, 2001) was a Russian physicist and educator. For this fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes. Basov taught at the Lebedev Physical Institute and at the Moscow Institute of Physical Engineers, and also served in the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1982–1989). He was the head of the laboratory of quantum radiophysics at the Lebedev at the time of his death.
