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  1. 1915- . US physicist who in 1953 designed and
  2. constructed the first maser. For this work,
  3. he shared the 1964 Nobel prize with Soviet
  4. physicists Nikolai Basov (1922-) and
  5. Aleksandr Prokhorov.
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