Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1916 - 2002)

Chronology

1939	Graduated with honours in physics from the Leningrad University, UUSR
1941 - 1944	Military service
1944 - 1946	Scientist at the Laboratory of Oscillations, USSR Academy of Sciences
1946	Science degree completed at the Lebedev Institute of Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
1946 - 1954	Senior Research Associateat the Laboratory of Oscillations
1948	Mandelstam Prize received
1950s	Doctorate completed at the Lebedev Institute of Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences
1954 - 1973	Head of the Laboratory of Oscillations
1959	Lenin Prize received
1964	Nobel Prize for Physics received
1966 -	Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1969 -	Editor-in-chief of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia
1969	Gold Star of Hero of Socialist Labor received
1973 - 1981	Chief of the Department of General Physics and Astronomy
1981 -	Director of the Institute of General Physics
1986	Gold Star of Hero of Socialist Labor received

• 'Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov - Biography', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1964/prokhorov-bio.html. [ Details ]
• 'The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 'for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle'', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1964/index.html. [ Details ]