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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 MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is.

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