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Noun: Alexander Prokhorov
  1. Russian physicist whose research into ways of moving electrons around atoms led to the development of masers and lasers for producing high-intensity radiation (1916-2002)
    - Prokhorov, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikjailovich Prokhorov

Type of: physicist

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