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Nikolay Basov

1922 – 2001 · aged 79

Soviet physicist (1922-2001)

Born
14 Dec 1922 · Usman
Died
1 Jul 2001 · Moscow
Part ofRussia1223 – todayRussian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic1842 – 1922Soviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 91 years
  1. 14 Dec 1922BornBorn in Usman
  2. 1941 – 1945WarEastern Front
  3. 1959AwardLenin Prize
  4. 1964AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  5. 1967AwardOrder of Lenin
  6. 1969Award"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
  7. 1969AwardHero of Socialist Labour
  8. 1969AwardOrder of Lenin
  9. 1972AwardOrder of Lenin
  10. 1973 – 1988RoleDirector
  11. 1975AwardOrder of Lenin
  12. 1982Award"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
  13. 1982AwardHero of Socialist Labour
  14. 1982AwardOrder of Lenin
  15. 1985AwardOrder of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
  16. 1 Jul 2001DiedDied in Moscow

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1922 – 2001).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Николай Геннадиевич Басов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.

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