Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov Юрий Васильевич Прохоров

Born	(1929-12-15)15 December 1929 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	16 July 2013(2013-07-16) (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russian
Fields	Probability theory
Institutions	Russian Academy of Sciences
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
Notable awards	Lenin Prize (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975, 1979)

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (Russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Про́хоров; 15 December 1929 – 16 July 2013) was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956.

Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1966, a full member in 1972. He was a vice-president of the IMU. He received Lenin Prize in 1970, Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1979. He was also an editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.