In what decade did Prokhorov win his Nobel prize?
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Prokhorov won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the 1960s. He shared the prize with Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow for their work on the maser and laser. The maser and laser are both devices that use stimulated emission of radiation to produce coherent light.
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