Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1916-07-11 in Atherton, Australia

Gender: male

Field: Soviet-Russian physicist

Biography

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov 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 Nikolay Basov.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964

Awarded on: 1964-10-29

"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"

Affiliations:

  • P.N. Lebedev Physical InstituteMoscow, USSR (now Russia)