Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

Nobel Prize in Physics 1964

“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”

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 for fundamental work in quantum electronics, which led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.