Russian scientists claim that world scientific community ignored contribution of Soviet Union into scientific development of our civilization.
      
      Recently quantum generators (lasers) celebrated 50^th anniversary, and many papers were dedicated to this event. However, materials of Inside Science, which covered 50 years of laser physics, didn’t have a single word neither about Soviet researchers, who laid the foundation of laser physics, nor about USSR or Russia. Such papers, which contain only fragments of real laser history, can misrepresent the whole history of science and technology, as well as innovative potential of Soviet science.
      
      We should remind our readers that two of three Nobel Prize laureates of 1964 “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle” were Soviet physicists Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov.
      
      Source: CNews.ru