PHYSICIST

Nikolay Basov

1922 - 2001

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Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Никола́й Генна́диевич Ба́сов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Russian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Basov is the 238th most popular physicist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 224th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Physicist.

Nikolay Basov is most famous for his work on the maser and the laser.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nikolay Basov ranks 238 out of 851. Before him are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, Tsung-Dao Lee, Leo Esaki, and Vitaly Ginzburg. After him are Arthur Ashkin, Willard Boyle, John Cockcroft, Gérard Mourou, William Shockley, and David Bohm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Nikolay Basov ranks 42. Before him are Jason Robards, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Stanley Cohen, Otto Carius, Nándor Hidegkuti, and Julius Nyerere. After him are Miguel Muñoz, Liliane Bettencourt, Arthur Ashkin, Jacques Piccard, Nils Liedholm, and Leon M. Lederman. Among people deceased in 2001, Nikolay Basov ranks 26. Before him are Iannis Xenakis, Alberto Korda, Gilbert Bécaud, Wilhelm Mohnke, Fred Hoyle, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Morris, William Hanna, Marie José of Belgium, Donald J. Cram, Timothy McVeigh, and Masao Ono.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Basov ranks 233 out of 3,761. Before him are The French Angel (1903), Gherman Titov (1935), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657). After him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Stenka Razin (1630), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), Michel Fokine (1880), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Nikolay Basov ranks 12. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916). After him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), and Vladimir Fock (1898).

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