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Basov, Nikolai Gennadiyevich (nyĭkəlī` gĕnä`dēyĕ'vĭch bä`səf), 1922–2001, Russian physicist and educator, b. Usman. He worked with A. M. Prokhorov Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (əlyĭksän`dər mēkhī`ləvĭch prô`khərəf)
..... Click the link for more information. to develop a technique for amplifying microwave signals in spectroscopic experiments, ultimately leading to the construction of a maser maser (mā`zər), device for creation, amplification, and transmission of an intense, highly focused beam of high-frequency radio
..... Click the link for more information. (1952). For this fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Prokhorov and C. H. Townes Townes, Charles Hard, 1915–, American physicist and educator, b. Greenville, S.C. He was educated at Furman Univ., Duke, and the California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.
..... Click the link for more information. . Basov taught at the Lebedev Institute of Physics 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.