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Pokrovskii, Yarolslav Ie., D. PM. S. Born in 1928. Corresponding member of the
General Physics and Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1987.
Academician Alexandr (Aleksandr) M. Prockorov, tel.135-13-31
Prokhorov, Aleksandr M., D. PM. S. Born in June 1916 in Atherton, Australia.
Russian Physicist. He has been a corresponding member of the General Physics
and Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1960, and an academician since
1966. He has been Academician Secretary of the General Physics and Astronomy
Department of the Academy since 1973. He graduated from the Leningrad State
University in 1939 and from 1939-1941 and from 1944 to 1946 he was an
"aspirant" at the Institute of Physics of the AN SSSR. He began working at the
institute in 1946, becoming head of a laboratory in 1954 and Deputy Director of the
institute in 1968. In 1959, he became a professor at Moscow State University. In
1961, he was Chief of the Oscillation laboratory and in 1965, Chief of the P. N.
Lebedev Physics Institute’s Oscillation Division in Moscow. He won the 1964
Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.
Together with N. G. Basov, he developed a fundamentally new
method of generating electromagnetic waves using quantum systems, devising the
first molecular generator using beams of ammonia molecules--a beam-type maser-in
1954-55. With his colleagues he also developed methods for creating
paramagnetic masers (1957-58). Since 1968, he has been Deputy Director of the
Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Since 1969, he has been editor-in-Chief of
the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He has been on the Presidium of the academy since
1970. In 1971 he became Director of a subdepartment at the Moscow
Physicotechnical Institute. Since 1983, he has served as Director of the General
Physics Institute in Moscow that was set up in 1983 to research lasers, solid-state
physics, fusion, spectroscopy, and fiber optics. It is subordinate to the academy's
General Physics and Astronomy Department. He received the Lenin Prize in 1959.
He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1971.
(GSE vol. 21, p. 257; vol. 3, p. 684; vol. 11, p. 587 and 607; vol. 16, p. 457; vol.
30, p. 146, and vol. 31., p. 318.)
Staff of the Department
Dr. Vladimir B. Belyanin, tel.938-54-60
Aleftina P. Kovaleva , tel.938-54-54
Olga V. Kudriavtseva, tel.938-16-95
Ekatherina V. Kurgusova, tel.938-52-82
Dr. Gelanna Al. Linchevskaya, tel.938-16-92
Dr. Andrei M. Romanov, tel.938-55-13
Olga B. Rybakova, tel.930-33-63
Tatyana V. Stepanova, tel.938-55-40
Marina Ev. Shvetsova, tel.938-55-22
Marina Iur. Iurieva, tel.938-54-60
Academicians
Abrikosov, Aleksei A., D. PM. S. Born in June 1928. Russian theoretical physicist.
He has been a corresponding member of the Academy since 1964, and an
academician since December 1987. He graduated from the Moscow State University
in 1948 and worked at the Institute of Physical Problems from 1948 to 1965. Since
1965 he has worked at Theoretical Physics Institute of the Academy where he has
been Head of the Metal Physics Laboratory. He has been a professor at Moscow
State University since 1965. He was named Director of the L. F. Vereshchagin High
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