"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"

Charles H. Townes
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Button born 1915
Button CA - University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Button AA - Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Button WA - Columbia University & Bell Labs, Naperville, Illinois, USA

 

"for basic researches in the field of experimental physics, which led to the discovery of the maser and the laser"

Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
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Button CA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Button AA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences
Button WA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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Button CA - Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Button AA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Button WA - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences


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