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Oct 11, 2008
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Nikolai Basov

Age: 78

physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 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.” He was an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons.

Died: June 2001

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