AKA Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov

Born: 11-Jul-1916
Birthplace: Atherton, Queensland, Australia
Died: 8-Jan-2002
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Invention of the maser and laser

Military service: Soviet Army (WWII)

Wife: G. A. Shelepina (geographer, m. 1941, one son)

    University: Leningrad State University (1951)
    Scholar: P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute
    Professor: Moscow M. V. Lomonosov State University

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1964 (with Charles H. Townes, Nikolay G. Basov)
    Order of Lenin

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