Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Prokhorov (1916– ), renowned for fundamental research in quantum electronics that led to the creation of masers and lasers, was the 1964 recipient (with N. G. Basov {see planet (3599)} and C. H. Townes) of the Nobel prize for physics and is honorary director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ General Physics Institute. (M 36127) _ _.
Discovered on 2-11-1975 in Nauchnyj by Smirnova, T. M.