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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 - January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist.
The son of Russian immigrants, he was born in Atherton , Queensland. He moved with his family to the Soviet Union in 1923.
Prokhorov (also known as Alexander Prochorow, depending on the spelling system) was a physicist and professor at the Moscow State University. In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on lasers.
He died in Moscow.
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