page_title: Alexander Prokhorov
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Prokhorov / Family
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Почтовая марка России, выпущенная 22 сентября 2016 года, к 100-летию А. М. Прохорова. Портрет учёного, годы его жизни и доска с записями семинара 1964 года. Номер по каталогу ЦФА — 2143. Художник — Г. Щеголь. Тираж — 252000.
context_page_description: Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was a Soviet-Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers in the Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
context_section_description: Both of Prokhorov's parents died during World War II. Prokhorov married geographer Galina Shelepina in 1941, and they had a son, Kiril, born in 1945. Following his father, Kiril Prokhorov became a physicist in the field of optics and is currently leading a laser-related laboratory at the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute.
caption: Alexander Prokhorov on 2016 postage stamp of Russia
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