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Nikolay Basov Summary |
 | | Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov was born on December 14, 1922, in the small village of Usman, outside the city of Voronezh, Russia. |
 | | Basov also examined the possibility of using semiconductors in the manufacture of masers and lasers and, in 1968, was able to initiate a thermonuclear fusion reaction by means of an especially powerful laser. |
 | | Basov graduated from (1950), and then held a professorship at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, worked in the Lebedev Physical Institute, where he defended a dissertation for the Candidates of Sciences degree (it is equivalent to PhD) in 1953 and a dissertation for the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1956. |
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