PHYSICIST

Alexander Prokhorov

1916 - 2002

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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and researcher 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Prokhorov has received more than 187,797 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Alexander Prokhorov is the 179th most popular physicist (up from 227th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Australia (up from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 179 out of 851. Before him are Tsung-Dao Lee, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Emilio Segrè, Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Martin Lewis Perl. After him are Satyendra Nath Bose, James Rainwater, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Igor Tamm, Martinus J. G. Veltman, and Josiah Willard Gibbs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 25. Before him are Yehudi Menuhin, Herbert A. Simon, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hans Eysenck, Maurice Wilkins, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. After him are Camilo José Cela, Jack Vance, Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Natalia Ginzburg, and Dương Văn Minh. Among people deceased in 2002, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 25. Before him are Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Illich, Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Fritz Walter, and Abu Nidal. After him are Camilo José Cela, Nándor Hidegkuti, Archer Martin, Robert Nozick, Jonas Savimbi, and Juan Alberto Schiaffino.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 12 out of 1,143. Before him are Rupert Murdoch (1931), George Lazenby (1939), Truganini (1812), Cate Blanchett (1969), Elton Mayo (1880), and Chris Hemsworth (1983). After him are Margaret Court (1942), Margot Robbie (1990), Heath Ledger (1979), Paul Hogan (1939), Julian Assange (1971), and Elizabeth Blackburn (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

Among physicists born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 2. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890). After him are Helen Quinn (1943), and Mark Oliphant (1901).

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