Editing Alexander Prokhorov (section)

==Honours and awards==
* Mandelstam Prize (1948)
* [[Lenin Prize]] (1959)
* Five [[Orders of Lenin]] (including 11 May 1981)
* [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 1st class (1985)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1964)
* [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], twice (1969, 1986)
* [[Medal "For Courage" (Russia)|Medal For Courage]]
* [[USSR State Prize]] (1980)
* [[Order of Merit for the Fatherland]], 2nd class (1996)
* [[State Prize of the Russian Federation]] (1998)
* Medal Frederick Ayvesa (2000)
* [[Demidov Prize]] (2001)
* [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (Moscow State University, 1987)
* Award of the Council of Ministers
* [[State Prize of the Russian Federation]] in science and technology (2003, posthumously) for the development of scientific and technological foundations of metrological support of measurements of length in the microwave and nanometer ranges and their application in microelectronics and nanotechnology
* Foreign Member of the [[Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences]] (1982)
* [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"]]
* [[Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Medal "Veteran of Labour"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"]]
* [[Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"]]