Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Nikolai Gennadievich Basov – one of the founders of quantum electronics (the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 was awarded jointly to Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes, 'for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle') – would have been 90 on 14 December 2012. In our time, quantum electronics is associated mainly with lasers, the variety of which, as well as their applications, is extremely high. Also large is the number of scientists and engineers working in this field.
Source: Quantum Electronics
Author: Oleg N Krokhin
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2017654721