| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1960 |
| Number: | 61 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Charles Hard Townes |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1915 |
| Year, Death: | 2015 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Nicolay Gennadijevitj Basov |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1922 |
| Year, Death: | 2001 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 | |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov [Prockorov] |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1916 |
| Year, Death: | 2002 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Erik Paul Gerhard Ingelstam |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1909 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |