1. Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Russian Soviet physicist and educator.
13 Facts About Nikolay Basov
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Nikolay Basov was born in the town of Usman, now in Lipetsk Oblast in 1922.
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Nikolay Basov finished school in 1941 in Voronezh, and was later called for military service at Kuibyshev Military Medical Academy.
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Nikolay Basov graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1950.
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Nikolay Basov then held a professorship at MEPhI and worked in the Lebedev Physical Institute, where he defended a dissertation for the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1953 and a dissertation for the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1956.
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Nikolay Basov was elected as corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1962 and Full Member of the Academy in 1966.
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Nikolay Basov was Honorary President and Member of the International Academy of Science, Munich.
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Nikolay Basov was the head of the laboratory of quantum radiophysics at the LPI until his death in 2001.
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Nikolay Basov then proceeded to the development of laser, an analogous generator of coherent light.
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Nikolay Basov developed with colleaguaes the first nonlinear theory of coherent addition of laser sets.
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Nikolay Basov encouraged the researchers in nonlinear optics in Lebedev Institute who discovered the optical phase conjugation.
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Nikolay Basov died on 1 July, 2001 at Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Nikolay Basov entered politics in 1951 and became a member of parliament in 1974.