Biography A Prokhorov

Disconnect on the page of Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov to disconnect on all pages of the authors to preserve the biography - Alexander Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov July 11, Atherton, Queensland, Australia - January 8, Moscow - Soviet and Russian physicist, one of the founders of the most important direction of modern physics, quantum electronics laureate for a year jointly jointly With Nikolai Basov and Charles Towns, one of the inventors of laser technology.

He was born on July 11 in the Australian city of Aterton, Queensland, in the family of Russian worker-revolutionary Mikhail Ivanovich Prokhorov-, who fled from the persecution of the royal regime, and Maria Ivanovna Mikhailova-[4]. In the year, the family returned to their homeland. In the year, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics of Leningrad State University and entered the graduate school of the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he went to the front, fought in the infantry, in intelligence, was awarded. In the year, after a severe wound, he was demobilized and returned to scientific work. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, a member of the CPSU B from the year [7] [8], defended his doctoral dissertation in the year. Throughout the years, he worked in Fian, headed the vibration laboratory from the year, and he has been deputy director since the year.

In the year he was appointed director of the Institute of General Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who headed up to a year, and then was his honorary director. At the same time, he taught at Moscow State University from the year as a professor; In the years, the head of the Department of Optics and Spectroscopy of the Faculty of Physics and the MIPT, where he headed the department since the year.

For twenty years, he was an academician-secretary of the department of general physics and astronomy, was a member and at the end of his life as an adviser to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences. He created a large school of physicists, raised many large scientists to his students are considered by academicians J. Alfierov, G. Month, E. Velikhov, V. Fortov, V. Osiko, E. Dianov and others [9].

In the year, he became one of the scientists who signed the letter to the newspaper Pravda with criticism of academician A. along with academicians A. Dornitsyn, G. Skryabin and A. Tikhonov signed the letter “When they lose honor and conscience” “Pravda”, July 2; Izvestia, on July 3, with the condemnation of Sakharov’s work “The danger of thermonuclear war” [12]. He was the chairman of the Scientific and Editorial Council of the publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia"-and the editor-in-chief of the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

He was the editor -in -chief of the physical encyclopedia and the physical encyclopedic dictionary, and in the year he headed the creation of a large encyclopedic dictionary. He was the editor -in -chief of the international magazine "Laser Physics" English. He died in the year of his life on January 8 of the year in Moscow, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Detailed biography.