| Nikolay G. Basov  AKA Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Born: 14-Dec-1922
Birthplace: Usman, Russia
Died: 1-Jul-2001
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Invention of the maser and laser Military service: Soviet Army (WWII) Father: Gennady Fedorovich Basov
Mother: Zinaida Andreevna Molchanova
Wife: Ksenia Tikhonovna Nazarova (m. 1950, two sons)
Son: Gennady (b. 1954)
Son: Dmitry (b. 1963)
University: Kuibyshev Military Medical Academy (1941-43)
University: Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (1950)
Scholar: P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Administrator: Deputy Director, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (1958-73)
Administrator: Director, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (1973-89)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1964 (with Charles H. Townes, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov)
Hero of Socialist Labor 1970
Order of Lenin (five times)
Order of the Patriotic War 1985
Edward Teller Medal 1991
Russian Academy of Sciences 1962
Optical Society of America
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