Aleksandr M. Prokhorov's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff; Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. The birth-card coordinate for July 11 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1964 The Nobel Prize in Physics — 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

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Aleksandr M. Prokhorov's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Aleksandr M. Prokhorov. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Aleksandr M. Prokhorov in the public record

His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov for his fundamental work that led to the development of the laser and the maser. Alexander Michael Prochoroff was born on 11 July 1916 in Atherton, Australia, to Russian parents who had emigrated from Russia to escape repression by the Tsarist regime. As a child, he attended Butchers Creek State School. The family returned to Russia in 1923, after the culmination of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. In 1934, Prokhorov entered the Saint Petersburg State University to study physics. He was a member of the Komsomol from 1930 to 1944, the youth wing of the CPSU. Prokhorov graduated with honors in 1939 and moved to Moscow to work at the Lebedev Physical Institute, in the oscillations laboratory headed by academician N.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alexander Prokhorov (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff; Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics.

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Also on the record

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3. His research there was devoted to propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere.
4. At the onset of World War II, in June 1941, he joined the Red Army.

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FAQ

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The 4 of Diamonds. July 11 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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