Editing Nikolay Basov (section)

{{Short description|Soviet physicist}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{distinguish|Nikolay Baskov}}
{{Infobox scientist
| native_name       = {{nobold|Николай Басов}}
| native_name_lang  = ru
| image             = Basov.jpg
| caption           = Basov in 1964
| birth_name        = Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1922|12|14|df=y}}<ref name=brit>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikolay-Basov Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov]. Encyclopaedia Britannica</ref>
| birth_place       = [[Usman (town)|Usman]], [[Tambov Governorate]], [[Russian SFSR]]<ref name=brit/>
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2001|7|1|1922|12|14|df=y}}<ref name=brit/>
| death_place       = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]<ref name=brit/>
| resting_place     = [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], Moscow
| field             = [[Physics]]
| alma_mater        = [[Moscow Engineering Physics Institute]]
| doctoral_students = 
| work_institution  = [[Lebedev Physical Institute]]
| known_for         = Invention of [[laser]]s and [[maser]]s
| spouse            = Ksenia Tikhonovna Basova<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1964/basov/biographical/ | title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 }}</ref>
| children          = [[Dimitri Basov]] (physics professor at [[Columbia University]])
| prizes            = {{nowrap|[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(1964)}}<br>[[Kalinga Prize]] {{small|(1986)}} <br>[[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] {{small|(1989)}} <br>[[Edward Teller Award]]{{small|1991)}} }}
}}
'''Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov''' ({{langx|ru|Никола́й Генна́диевич Ба́сов}}; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Russian 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]].<ref name=i-lasers>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100926022159/http://i-lasers.com/basov.html "Basov Nikolay Gennadiyevich"]}}</ref>