Their Hearts Beat Coherently
Abstract
Abstract
I had the great fortune to study and work in close contact with the outstanding Russian physicists Alexander Mikhailovich
Prokhorov and Nikolai Gennadievich Basov. I have never ceased to be amazed at the manifestations of their genius, each
time discovering new facets of the many talents of their teachers.
What do I remember first of all when they have been gone for more than 20 years, and the acute emotions of parting have
long since subsided? Incredibly developed sense of intuition, astonishing in its speed ability to find the right solutions, a
keen sense of the new, fundamentally important for a leap into the future, humanity. But the sense of the cutting edge of
science, the trends of its development were, perhaps, the main in the character of these phenomenal scientists. My task
in this article is to add my own colors to complete the images of these great scientists and citizens of Russia - Alexander
Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Nikolai Gennadievich Basov.
