Alexander Prokhorov
Soviet physicist
Died when: 85 years 181 days (1025 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: ??????´??? ????´?????? ???´?????; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers in the Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
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