Back ألكسندر بروخروف Arabic الكسندر بروخروف ARZ Aleksandr Proxorov AZ الکساندر میخایلوویچ پروخورف AZB Прохоров Александр Михайлович BA Аляксандр Міхайлавіч Прохараў BE Александър Прохоров Bulgarian আলেক্সান্দর প্রখরভ Bengali/Bangla Aleksandr Mikhàilovitx Prókhorov Catalan ئەلێکساندەر پرۆخۆرۆڤ CKB
Alexander Prokhorov | |
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Александр Прохоров | |
 Prokhorov in 1964 | |
| Born | Alexander Michael Prochoroff 11 July 1916 |
| Died | 8 January 2002 (aged 85) |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Known for | Lasers and masers |
| Awards | 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 Lomonosov Gold Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov[1] (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) 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.