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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers in the former Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and ...
Alexander Prochorov is Professor at the Moscow State University and Vice-President of URSI. He married in I941; his wife, G.A. Shelepina, is a geographer. They have one son.
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist who, with Nikolay G. Basov and Charles H. Townes, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for fundamental research in quantum electronics that led to the development of the maser and laser.
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Jan 8, 2002 · Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964. Born: 11 July 1916, Atherton, Australia. Died: 8 January 2002, Moscow, Russia.
Aug 2, 2016 · Learn about the life and achievements of Alexander Prokhorov, who co-invented the laser and won the Nobel Prize in 1964. He spent his early years in far north Queensland, but later returned to Russia and became a Communist Party member.
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Jan 9, 2002 · Dr. Aleksandr M. Prokhorov, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for research that led to the development of lasers, died yesterday at his apartment in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported. He...
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Jan 10, 2002 · Aleksander Prokhorov, the Russian physicist whose groundbreaking work led to the invention of the laser, died earlier this week. Prokhorov was best known for pioneering the microwave laser or ‘maser’ – which laid the foundations for many lasers – and as a director of Russia's General Physics Institute.
