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Умер Александр Прохоров, один из создателей лазера.
Сообщение с ВИФа , размести Venik.
Я перенес его сюда, хотя не совсем по теме, но это был действительно великий советский ученый.
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Рэйтерс сообщает что умер А. Прохоров, Лауреат Нобелевской премии, изобретатель лазерной технологии.
Tuesday January 8 8:23 AM ET
Russian Laser Pioineer Prokhorov Dies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Nobel laureate Alexander Prokhorov, an inventor of laser technology and a leading light in the Soviet Union's space defense program, died Tuesday at the age of 85, the Academy of Sciences said.
Prokhorov won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964, along with fellow countryman Nikolai Basov and U.S. scientist Charles Townes for laying the groundwork for the invention of the laser.
The research institute that he headed was also a key contributor to the Soviet program to counter U.S. President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s plans for a ``Star Wars'' defense system -- so called because it would destroy ballistic missiles in space.
Born in Australia in 1916, Prokhorov came to the Soviet Union in 1923. During World War Two he joined the Red Army, despite eligibility for exemption because of his academic research, and was twice wounded.
A leading member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prokhorov was twice made a Hero of Socialist Labor -- the Soviet state's highest civilian accolade.
Prokhorov will be buried in Moscow's Novodyevichy cemetery, resting place of many of the Soviet Union's greatest scientists, writers and composers.
С уважением, Venik