Editing Alexander Prokhorov (section)

==Family==
[[File:Nicolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov with wives 1964.jpg|thumb|Basov and Prokhorov with wives in Stockholm in 1964]]
Both of Prokhorov's parents died during World War II. Prokhorov married [[geographer]] Galina Shelepina in 1941, and they had a son, Kiril, born in 1945. Following his father, Kiril Prokhorov became a physicist in the field of optics and is currently leading a laser-related laboratory at the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute.<ref name=family>[http://www.gpi.ru/memory/amp.php Основные даты жизни и деятельности академика А.М. Прохорова] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211173542/http://www.gpi.ru/memory/amp.php |date=11 December 2010 }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpi.ru/staff_s.php?eng=0&id=44|title=Кирилл Александрович Прохоров|access-date=20 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221010931/http://www.gpi.ru/staff_s.php?eng=0&id=44|archive-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:RUSMARKA-2143.jpg|thumb|right|Alexander Prokhorov on 2016 [[postage stamp]] of Russia]]