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...tritium with a powerful pulse of laser light, they cause the explosive evaporation of the pellet's surface. As the material sprays off, the rest of the pellet implodes. The hydrogen nuclei are thus forced together. As early as 1968, a team of Soviet researchers under Physicist Nikolai Basov, a Nobel laureate, reported that they had used lasers to ignite a brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction. Since then, their experiments have been repeated-and improved upon-in a number of countries, including the U.S., France, Britain and West Germany. But scientists are not yet certain that the burst...
...atomic physics, for example, Moscow's competing Lebedev and Kurchatov Institutes may well be ahead of Western research centers in the race to control thermonuclear fusion, the same energy process that powers the sun. Under Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov, Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction. Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone...
Charles Townes and Russian Physicists Aleksandr Prochorov and Nikolai Basov Nobel Prizes in 1964-his colleagues have long felt that he was overlooked by the Nobel committee. Kastler's award, said Paris' Le Monde test week, was "the repair of an injustice...
Aleksandr M. Prochorov and Nikolai G. Basov, who independently developed a somewhat similar maser at Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics...
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