Alexander Prokhorov
Russian physicist
>
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was a Russian physicist and research 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. Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1916, Peeramon, Australia
Died: January 8, 2002 (age 85 years), Moscow, Russia
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, and more
Spouse: Galina Shelepina (m. 1941–2002)