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

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

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