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Birth of Nikolay Basov

14 December 1922

Soviet physicist (1922-2001). Nikolay Basov was born on 14 December 1922 in what is now the Russian Federation. Nikolay Basov is remembered as a physicist, inventor and university teacher, a citizen of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Soviet Union. Positions held included director and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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