1916 - 2002
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Prokhorov has received more than 174,335 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Alexander Prokhorov is the 227th most popular physicist (down from 179th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Australia (down from 17th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Physicist.
Alexandr Prokhorov is most famous for being the owner of the Brooklyn Nets.
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Among physicists, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 227 out of 717. Before him are Mihajlo Pupin, Charles Wheatstone, Andrew Huxley, Clifford Shull, John Kendrew, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are John Vincent Atanasoff, Carl von Linde, Nevill Francis Mott, Melvin Schwartz, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Jim Peebles.
1858 - 1935
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 221
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 222
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 223
1915 - 2001
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 224
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 225
1912 - 1997
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 226
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 227
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 228
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 229
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 230
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 231
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 232
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 233
Among people born in 1916, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 39. Before him are C. Wright Mills, Abdul Rahman Arif, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Vitaly Ginzburg, Emil Gilels, and Raf Vallone. After him are Robert F. Furchgott, Paul Keres, Sune Bergström, Masaki Kobayashi, P. W. Botha, and Dino Risi. Among people deceased in 2002, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 31. Before him are Nándor Hidegkuti, Fritz Walter, James Tobin, Jonas Savimbi, Raf Vallone, and Abu Nidal. After him are Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Ne Win, Zizinho, George Porter, John Gotti, and Max Perutz.
1916 - 1962
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 33
1916 - 2007
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 34
1916 - 2000
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 35
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 36
1916 - 1985
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 37
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 38
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 39
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 40
1916 - 1975
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 41
1916 - 2004
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 42
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 43
1916 - 2006
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 44
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 45
1922 - 2002
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 25
1920 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 26
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 27
1934 - 2002
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 28
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 29
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 30
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 31
1925 - 2002
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 32
1910 - 2002
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 33
1921 - 2002
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 34
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 35
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 36
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 37
Among people born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 26 out of 925. Before him are Margaret Court (1942), Tamam Shud case (1903), John Eccles (1903), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), V. Gordon Childe (1892), and Margot Robbie (1990). After him are Peter Weir (1944), Joan Sutherland (1926), Ned Kelly (1855), Robin Warren (1937), Kylie Minogue (1968), and Macfarlane Burnet (1899).
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 20
1903 - 1948
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 21
1903 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 22
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 23
1892 - 1957
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 24
1990 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 25
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 26
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 27
1926 - 2010
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 28
1855 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 29
1937 - Present
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 30
1968 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 31
1899 - 1985
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 32
Among physicists born in Australia, Alexander Prokhorov ranks 2. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890). After him are Mark Oliphant (1901) and Helen Quinn (1943).
1890 - 1971
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 1
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 2
1901 - 2000
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 3
1943 - Present
HPI: 43.13
Rank: 4