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Alexander Prokhorov

Soviet and Russian physicist1916 to 2002

Wikidata names Sergei Rytov and Vladimir Migulin as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Sergei Rytov
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Vladimir Migulin

Students on Wikidata7

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Nikolay Basov
born 1922
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Nikolay Karlov
born 1929
stated by Wikidata
Leonid Kornienko
born 1931
stated by Wikidata
Georgy Zverev
born 1934
stated by Wikidata
Evgeny Velikhov
born 1935
stated by Wikidata
Radik Martirosyan
born 1936
stated by Wikidata
Yevgeny Dianov
born 1936

Taught6

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nikolay Basov
born 1922
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nikolay Karlov
born 1929
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Vyacheslav Osiko
born 1932
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Evgeny Velikhov
born 1935
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Pavel Pavlovich Pashinin
born 1935
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Yevgeny Dianov
born 1936

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataSergei Rytovstated by WikidataVladimir Migulin
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLeonid Mandelstam
3 steps up
stated by WikidataKarl Ferdinand Braun
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAugust Kundtstated by WikidataGeorg Hermann Quincke

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 16 people: 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1939
Faculty of Physics, State University of Saint Petersbourg
studied
1946 to 1982
Lebedev Physical Institute
worked
1954 to 1961
SINP MSU
worked
from 1982
Prokhorov General Physics Institute
worked
undated
Lebedev Physical Institute
studied
undated
Saint Petersburg State University
studied
undated
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
worked
undated
Lomonosov Moscow State University
worked
undated
Laser Physics
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher, editor
fields: physics, quantum electronics, laser, maser
degrees: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, 1952
awards: USSR State Prize, 1980, Order of Lenin, 1967, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of Socialist Labour, 1969, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, 1985, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1964, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class, 1996, Lenin Prize, 1959, Medal "For Courage", 1945, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Lomonosov Gold Medal, 1987, Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Helmholtz Medal, 1987, Frederic Ives Medal, 2000, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize, 1988, Demidov Prize, 2001, Russian government prize for science and technology, 2003, Order of Lenin, 1969, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, 1969, Order of Lenin, 1975, Order of Lenin, 1981, Order of Lenin, 1986, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1986, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, 1986, Order of Cyril and Methodius, 1979, State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1998, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize, 1989, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude, 2000, Lomonosov Gold Medal
member of: German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, from 1977, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1991, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960 to 1966, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1972, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from 1966, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1976, Romanian Academy
Wikipedia: in 78 languages

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stated by WikidataWikipediaAlexander Prokhorov
stated by WikidataWikidataQ83552
stated by WikidataVIAF54297349
stated by WikidataGND118875671
stated by WikidataIdRef035411147
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109027419

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@misc{academicancestry_Q83552,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Alexander Prokhorov: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83552},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Alexander Prokhorov: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83552