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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1964 (8) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1916 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Australia (10) Atherton (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 2000s (70) 2002 (7) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Asia (33) Russia (15) Moscow (12) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) A (79) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) P (41) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) A (39) Alexander (4) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 49 (23) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Asia (83) Russia (27) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Asia (32) Russia (10) Moscow (9) Lebedev Physical Institute (6) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Asia (71) Russia (19) Moscow (15) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (8) Long-term academic staff (5) Moscow State University (13) Long-term academic staff (7) Saint Petersburg (7) Saint Petersburg State University (7) Alumni (7) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (32) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) H (88) Hungarian Academy of Sciences (61) R-T (460) R (448) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize (1) D (194) Demidov Prize (2) G-H (389) H (196) "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (4) Helmholtz Medal (15) Hero of Socialist Labour (8) K-L (297) L (183) Lomonosov Gold Medal (23) M-N (333) M (172) Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1) Medal "Veteran of Labour" (2) O-P (364) O (205) Order of Lenin (13) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (4) Q-Z (398) R (196) Russian government award for science and technology (1) S (125) State Prize of the Russian Federation (2) complete name: Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov nobel prize: physics award year: 1964 together with: Nikolay Basov together with: Charles Hard Townes prize share: Prize share: 1/4 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 was divided, one half awarded to Charles Hard Townes, the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov "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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Alexander family name: Prokhorov occupation: physicist occupation: editor occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia description: Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov. pronunciation: (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1964/summary/> date birth: 1916 date death: 2002 usual name: Alexander Prokhorov
