Russia:Nobel Prize Winners Series: 100th Birth Anniversary of Nicolay G. Basov, Scientist, Founder of Quantum Electronics

On 12 January 2022, Russian Post issued a stamp as part of its Nobel Prize Winners Series featuring Nicolay G. Basov.

Nicolay G. Basov (1922 - 2001) was a Soviet and Russian Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964), the Lenin Prize (1959) and the State Prize of the USSR (1989) and twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1969 & 1982).

Issue Description
From 1948, Nicolay Basov 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.

Issue Details
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. 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".

Stamp
The postage stamp features a portrait of N. Basov, Nobel Prize Laureate and scientist, fragments of formulae and the logo of the Kvantovaya Elektronika journal.

Sheet
The sheet with formatted margins contains 9 (3x3) stamps (one design).

First Day Cover
This First Day Cover is a pictorial envelope with the stamp from the issue affixed and postmarked. First Day Cover size 114 x.