Alexander Prokhorov

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.