Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 2026-10-18
One half went to Charles Hard Townes; the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, for quantum-electronics work leading to oscillators and amplifiers using the maser-laser principle.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: Townes one-half; Basov and Prokhorov one-quarter each; common quantum-electronics motivation.