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Alexander Prokhorov

1916 - 2002

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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov for his fundamental work that led to the development of the laser and the maser. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Prokhorov is the 227th most popular physicist (down from 179th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Australia (down from 12th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 227 out of 851. Before him are Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, and Ettore Majorana. After him are Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and Jacques Charles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 31. Before him are Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. After him are Paul Keres, Vitaly Ginzburg, Ruth Handler, Natalia Ginzburg, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Robert F. Furchgott. Among people deceased in 2002, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 26. Before him are James Coburn, B. D. Jatti, Fritz Walter, Ivan Illich, Rod Steiger, and Linda Lovelace. After him are Max Perutz, Victor Weisskopf, Nándor Hidegkuti, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ruth Handler, and Edsger W. Dijkstra.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 20 out of 1,143. Before him are Rupert Murdoch (1931), Truganini (1812), George Lazenby (1939), Jack Brabham (1926), Errol Flynn (1909), and Scott Morrison (1968). After him are John Eccles (1903), Chris Hemsworth (1983), Margaret Court (1942), Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972), Luís Vaz de Torres (1565), and Heath Ledger (1979).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

Among physicists born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 2. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890). After him are Mark Oliphant (1901), and Helen Quinn (1943).

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