Nicolay G. Basov (1922-2001) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964), the Lenin Prize (1959) and the State Prize of the USSR(1989), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1969, 1982).
From 1948, he worked as a research assistant at the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (FIAN), where he continued his work after graduation from MEPhI. In 1958-1972, Basov was a Deputy Director of FIAN, and from 1973 to 1989, he was the Director of this Institute. In 1963, he established a Quantum Radio Physics Laboratory in FIAN. In 1962, Basov was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and in 1966, he was elected an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Nicolay Basov was the Editor-in-Chief of the Nauka (Science), Kvantovaya Elektronika (Quantum Electronics), and Priroda (Nature) journals and a member of the Editorial Board of the Kvant (Quantum) journal. N. Basov and A. Prokhorov were awarded the Lenin Prize in 1959, and in 1964, in collaboration with Ch. Townes, they received the Physics Nobel Prize 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".
The postage stamp provides a portrait of N. Basov, Nobel Prize laureate, scientist, fragments of formulae and the logo of the Kvantovaya Elektronika journal.
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