Alexander Prokhorov - Definition

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist.

He was born in Atherton, Queensland, to a family of Russian immigrants. He and his parents relocated to the Soviet Union in 1923.

Prokhorov (also known as Alexander Prochorow, depending on the spelling system) was a physicist and professor at the Moscow State University. In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on lasers.

He died in Moscow.

External links

• Aleksandr Prokhorov (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/aleksandr_mikhaylovich_prokhorov.html)
• Prokhorov's biography on the Nobel Prize website (http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1964/prokhorov-bio.html)