Nobel Prize in physics, 1964
firstname: Charles H.
surname: Townes
motivation: "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"
firstname: Nicolay G.
surname: Basov
motivation: "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"
firstname: Aleksandr M.
surname: Prokhorov
motivation: "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"