Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov (1922–2001) was a Russian physicist, inventor, university teacher, and politician. Born in Usman, he died in Moscow and is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. His fields of work included radiophysics, physics, and quantum electronics. He served as a director at the Lebedev Physical Institute and the National Research Nuclear University, where he was also educated. His doctoral advisors were Mikhail Leontovich and Alexander Prokhorov.

Basov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and held citizenship in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Soviet Union, and Russia. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Among his awards were the USSR State Prize, the Order of Lenin, the Hero of Socialist Labour, and the Nobel Prize in Physics. His published work includes *Chemical Lasers*.