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Nobel Prize

Russia · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1958–1964Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1958

Pavel Cherenkov1958

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering and interpreting the Cherenkov effect.

1964

Nikolai Gennadevich Basov1964

Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for research in lasers

Alexander Prokhorov1964

Moscow · Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, created the maser, a microwave laser

Names involved

Alexander ProkhorovNikolai Gennadevich BasovPavel Cherenkov

Provenance

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