Alexander Prokhorov - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1964
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Alexander Prokhorov

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1964
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
Together with: Charles Hard Townes , Nikolay Basov
Citizenship
Soviet Union Soviet Union Russia Russia
Languages
Russian
date of birth
7/11/1916
place of birth
Atherton
date of death
1/8/2002
place of death
Moscow
Lived
85 years

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member of
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
    • start time: 1977
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1976
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 7/1/1966
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • end time: 7/1/1966
    • start time: 6/10/1960
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1972
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1991
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Romanian Academy
employer
  • SINP MSU
    • end time: 1961
    • start time: 1954
  • Prokhorov General Physics Institute
    • start time: 1982
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • end time: 1982
    • start time: 1946
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Laser Physics
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
educated at
  • Faculty of Physics, State University of Saint Petersbourg
    • end time: 1939
  • Saint Petersburg State University
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
field of work
  • physics
  • laser
  • maser
  • quantum electronics
occupation
  • physicist
  • editor
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Leonid Kornienko
  • Nikolay Basov
  • Evgeny Velikhov
  • Nikolay Karlov
  • Radik Martirosyan
position held
  • editor-in-chief
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