№ 2143. 100 years since the birth A.M. Prokhorov (1916-2002), physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002) was an outstanding Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics. A laser technology pioneer, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.

Prokhorov’s works are dedicated to radio physics, accelerator physics, radio spectroscopy, quantum electronics and its applications and non-linear optics. He established a major physics school; there were many prominent scientists among his students. The General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been bearing the name of Prokhorov since 2002.

The postage stamp depicts a portrait of Alexander Prokhorov against the background of a blackboard with notes from a 1964 colloquium on it.