Basov

American  

[bah-suhf] / ˈbɑ səf /

noun

1. Nikolai Gennadiyevich 1922–2001, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1964.

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Basov British  

/ ˈbasəf /

noun

1. Nikolai Gennediyevich (nikaˈlaj ɡjiˈnadjejivitʃ). 1922–2001, Russian physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1964) for his pioneering work on the maser

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Example Sentences

But Dr. Townes — who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics with Soviet scientists Nicolay G. Basov and Alexander M. Prokhorov — was chiefly responsible for the maser.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2015

The men, identified as Oleg Basov and Yevgeny Avilov, are members of an art group called Blue Rider.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2015

As early as 1968, a team of Soviet researchers under Physicist Nikolai Basov, a Nobel laureate, reported that they had used lasers to ignite a brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other half of the $53,000 payoff went to Drs. Aleksandr M. Prochorov and Nikolai G. Basov, who independently developed a somewhat similar maser at Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov, Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction.

From Time Magazine Archive