The Nobel Prize was awarded to Alexander Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov, who was a Soviet physicist and graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Leningrad State University in 1939, was awarded the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 was divided: one half awarded to Charles Hard Townes; the other half jointly to Nicolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov ‘for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle’.