Nikolay Basov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolay Basov

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1922

Place of Birth: Usman, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jul-2001

Profession: politician, professor, physicist, inventor

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: ??????´? ?????´?????? ??´???; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) 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.