Alexander Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov
Alexander Prokhorov
Александр Прохоров
	Prokhorov in 1964
Born	Alexander Michael Prochoroff; 11 July 1916; Peeramon, Queensland, Australia
Died	8 January 2002 (aged 85); Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Known for	Lasers and masers
Awards	1964 Nobel Prize in Physics; 1987 Lomonosov Gold Medal
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov^[1] (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and research 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 Nikolay Basov.

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