Alexander Prokhorov
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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov 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 electromagnet
Prokhorov in 1964
Prokhorov with King Gustaf VI Adolf and wife of Townes at the Nobel Prize banquet in 1964
Basov and Prokhorov with their wives in Stockholm in 1964
Alexander Prokhorov on 2016 postage stamp of Russia
Maser
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A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission. The term is an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. N
Alexander Prokhorov
…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. Alexander Michael Prochoroff was born on 11 July 1916 in Atherton, Australia, to Russian parents who had emigrated from Russia to escape repression…
The first prototype ammonia maser in front of its inventor Charles H. Townes. The ammonia nozzle is at left in the box, the four brass rods at center are the quadrupole state selector, and the resonant cavity is at right. The 24 GHz microwaves exit through the vertical waveguide Townes is adjusting. At bottom are the vacuum pumps.
Aurorae on the north pole of Jupiter generate cyclotron masers (Hubble)