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Alexander Prokhorov

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Alexander Prokhorov

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Also known as Aleksandr Prokhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov

Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)

AI overview

Alexander Prokhorov was a Soviet and Russian physicist who lived from 1916 to 2002 and made important contributions to the field of physics. While the specific details of his work are not provided here, his long career and nationality suggest he was a significant figure in 20th-century Soviet science.

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  • Springtime for Soviet Cinema
  • Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era
  • Blackbody Radiometry : Volume 1
  • Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition
  • Cinemasaurus

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 50,977x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,472x

  3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,503x

  4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,560x

  5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,938x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1964

    “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”

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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff; Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov for his fundamental work that led to the development of the laser and the maser.

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