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Encyclopedia > Aleksandr Prokhorov

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist.


He was born in Atherton, Soviet Union in 1923.


Prokhorov (also known as Alexander Prochorow, depending on the spelling system) was a physicist and professor at the Moscow State University. In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on lasers.


He died in Moscow.


External links

  • Aleksandr Prokhorov (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/aleksandr_mikhaylovich_prokhorov.html)
  • Prokhorov's biography on the Nobel Prize website (http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1964/prokhorov-bio.html)







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Aleksandr Prokhorov Biography | World of Scientific Discovery (481 words)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was born in 1916, in Atherton, Australia.
Prokhorov and and Nikolai G. Basov became involved in the stimulated emission of radiation from gas molecules.
Prokhorov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1959 and the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1988.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (306 words)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was a Soviet/Russian physicist born in Australia.
Prokhorov (also known as Alexander Prochorow, depending on the spelling system) was a physicist and professor at the Moscow State University.
Prokhorov's role in the invention of lasers and masers
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