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Was Alexander Prokhorov a physicist?

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  • Yes

  • He was a biologist

  • He was a mathematician

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Yes, Alexander Prokhorov was a physicist. He was a Soviet physicist and academician. He is best known for his work on masers and lasers, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Townes and Nikolai Basov. Prokhorov also made significant contributions to the development of radio astronomy and Theory of plasma.
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