Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov was a physicist, inventor, university teacher, and politician born in Usman in 1922. He worked in the fields of radiophysics, physics, and quantum electronics. His professional roles included serving 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 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the USSR State Prize, the Order of Lenin, and the title Hero of Socialist Labour. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

He participated in the conflict on the Eastern Front and held citizenship in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Soviet Union, and Russia. Basov died in Moscow on July 1, 2001, and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. His native language was Russian.