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Alexander Prokhorov (Alexander Michael Prochoroff) was born on 11 July, 1916 in Peeramon, Queensland, Australia, is an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist. Discover Alexander Prokhorov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Alexander Michael Prochoroff
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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 11 July, 1916
Birthday 11 July
Birthplace Peeramon, Queensland, Australia
Date of death 2002
Died Place Moscow, Russia
Nationality Australia

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1916

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Russian physicist known for his pioneering 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.

Alexander Michael Prochoroff was born on 11 July 1916 at Russell Road, Peeramon, Queensland, Australia (now 322 Gadaloff Road, Butchers Creek, situated about 30 km from Atherton), to Mikhail Ivanovich Prokhorov and Maria Ivanovna (née Mikhailova), Russian revolutionaries who had emigrated from Russia to escape repression by the tsarist regime.

As a child he attended Butchers Creek State School.

1923

In 1923, after the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, the family returned to Russia.

1930

He was a member of the Komsomol from 1930 to 1944.

1934

In 1934, Prokhorov entered the Saint Petersburg State University to study physics.

1939

Prokhorov graduated with honors in 1939 and moved to Moscow to work at the Lebedev Physical Institute, in the oscillations laboratory headed by academician N. D. Papaleksi.

His research there was devoted to propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere.

1941

At the onset of World War II in the Soviet Union, in June 1941, he joined the Red Army.

1944

He was demobilized in 1944 and returned to the Lebedev Institute where, in 1946, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Theory of Stabilization of Frequency of a Tube Oscillator in the Theory of a Small Parameter".

1946

During World War II, Prokhorov fought in the infantry, was wounded twice in battles, and was awarded three medals, including the Medal For Courage in 1946.

1947

In 1947, Prokhorov started working on coherent radiation emitted by electrons orbiting in a cyclic particle accelerator called a synchrotron.

He demonstrated that the emission is mostly concentrated in the microwave spectral range.

1950

By 1950, Prokhorov was assistant chief of the oscillation laboratory.

Around that time, he formed a group of young scientists to work on radiospectroscopy of molecular rotations and vibrations, and later on quantum electronics.

The group focused on a special class of molecules which have three (non-degenerate) moments of inertia.

The research was conducted both on experiment and theory.

1951

His results became the basis of his habilitation on "Coherent Radiation of Electrons in the Synchrotron Accelerator", defended in 1951.

1952

Their results were first presented at a national conference in 1952, but not published until 1954–1955;

1954

In 1954, Prokhorov became head of the laboratory.

Together with Nikolay Basov he developed theoretical grounds for creation of a molecular oscillator and constructed such an oscillator based on ammonia.

They also proposed a method for the production of population inversion using inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields.

1955

In 1955, Prokhorov started his research in the field of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR).

He focused on relaxation times of ions of the iron group elements in a lattice of aluminium oxide, but also investigated other, "non-optical", topics, such as magnetic phase transitions in DPPH.

1957

In 1957, while studying ruby, a chromium-doped variation of aluminium oxide, he came upon the idea of using this material as an active medium of a laser.

1958

As a new type of laser resonator, he proposed, in 1958, an "open type" cavity design, which is widely used today.

1959

In 1959, Prokhorov became a professor at Moscow State University – the most prestigious university in the Soviet Union; the same year, he was awarded the Lenin Prize.

1960

In 1960, he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and elected Academician in 1966.

1963

In 1963, together with A. S. Selivanenko, he suggested a laser using two-quantum transitions.

1964

For his pioneering work on lasers and masers, in 1964, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics shared with Nikolay Basov and Charles Hard Townes.

1967

In 1967, he was awarded his first Order of Lenin (he received five of them during life, in 1967, 1969, 1975, 1981 and 1986).

1968

In 1968, he became vice-director of the Lebedev Institute and in 1971 took the position of Head of Laboratory of another prestigious Soviet institution, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

In the same year, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1969

In 1969, Prokhorov became a Hero of Socialist Labour, the highest degree of distinction in the Soviet Union for achievements in national economy and culture.

Starting in 1969, he was the chief editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

1982

Between 1982 and 1998, Prokhorov served as acting director of the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and after 1998 as honorary director.

1983

In 1983 he was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

1986

He received the second such award in 1986.

1993

Prokhorov was a Member and one of the Honorary Presidents of the International Academy of Science, Munich and supported 1993 the foundation and development of the Russian Section of International Academy of Science, Moscow.

2002

After his death in 2002, the institute was renamed the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.