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Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich

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Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1916–2002) Soviet physicist, b. Australia. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics with Nikolai Basov and Charles H. Townes. Prokhorov's research in quantum electronics resulted in the development of the maser and laser.

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