Nikolai Basov, the Russian physicist whose pioneering work led to the invention of the laser, has died aged 78. Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles ...

MOSCOW — Nikolai Basov, a physicist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1964 for his contributions to the development of lasers, has died. He was 76. In reporting the death Monday, Russian news stories ...

The centennial anniversary on Wednesday, December 14, marks the birth of the outstanding physicist Nikolai Basov, Readovka reports. The Nobel laureate made a huge contribution to the development of ...

Semiconductor diode lasers are everywhere. They created the light pulses that raced along the fibres between our server and yours – allowing you to read this article – and if you stop at the ...

Lasers are everywhere in almost every area of human activity. They are used by soldiers and doctors, construction workers and students. Lasers are part of personal computers and space satellites.

Russians were pioneers in the development of lasers, today a multi-billion dollar industry. Two of them, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov, won the Nobel Prize in 1964, along with the American ...

There are only very few occasions when discoveries are made that start an entire new research field and at the same time revolutionize our everyday life. The transistor is one example — it led to ...

Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Townes for fundamental research into quantum electronics, which forms the foundation on which modern laser technology ...