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Encyclopedia > Alexander Prochorow

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 Mikhailovich Prokhorov Summary (740 words)
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 in Physics, for his work on lasers and masers.
Alexander Stefan and published by the American Institute of Physics Press (presently * Springer, New York)
Wikinfo | Alexander Prochorow (136 words)
His family moved to the Soviet Union in 1923.
Prokhorov (also known as Alexander Prochorow, depending on the spelling system) was a Russian physicist and professor at the Moscow State University.
In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on lasers.
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