When was Prokhorov born?
11 July 1916
8 January 1916
1 January 1900
15 April 1920
Answer
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was born on 11 July 1916 in the city of Belaya Tserkov in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, who shared the award with Charles H. Townes and Nikolay Basov for their work on the maser and laser.
Revolutionary Minds: Discovering Alexander Prokhorov
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