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Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin (Russian: Пётр Питиримович Сорокин, 10 July 1931 – 24 September 2015) was an
American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the
dye laser.
[1]
[2] He was born in
Boston and grew up in
Winchester, Massachusetts.
[3]
[4] He attended Harvard University, receiving a
BA degree in 1952 and a
PhD in
Applied Physics in 1958; his PhD
thesis adviser was
Nicolaas Bloembergen.
[4]
Peter Sorokin was a son of a prominent Russian sociologist
Pitirim Sorokin and his wife Microbiologist Dr.
Elena Baratynskaya, who belonged to
Russian nobility (see:
Baratynsky [
ru]). Sorokin joined IBM in 1958.
[4] Sorokin and his colleague J. R. Lankard, at
IBM Research Laboratories, used a
ruby laser to excite a near infrared laser dye. Their report was quickly followed by that of
F. P. Schäfer. In 1974 Sorokin received the
Albert A. Michelson Medal from the
Franklin Institute.
[5] In 1983 Sorokin was awarded the
Comstock Prize in Physics from the
National Academy of Sciences
[6] and in 1984 the
Harvey Prize from Israel's
Technion.
[7] In 1991 he received the first
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the
American Physical Society.
[8] Sorokin is an
IBM Fellow since 1968.
[9] He was also a
Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Toward the end of his career he became interested in astronomy. Sorokin died at the age of 84 on 24 September 2015 from injuries incurred in a fall in August.
[4]
[10]
References
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Schäfer, F. P. (1990). "Chapter 1: Principles of Dye Laser Operation". In Schäfer, F. P. (ed.). Dye lasers. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
OCLC
21561617.
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^
Duarte, F. J. (2015). "Introduction to lasers". Tunable Laser Optics (2nd ed.). New York:
CRC Press. pp. 1–30.
ISBN
978-1-4822-4529-5.
OCLC
902838121.
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^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
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d Bethune, Donald S.; Wynne, James J. (23 December 2015).
"Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin: Laser pioneer dedicated to understanding, creating, and using light".
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113 (1): 12–3.
Bibcode:
2016PNAS..113...12B.
doi:
10.1073/pnas.1523215113.
PMC
4711863.
PMID
26699496.
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^
"Franklin Laureate Database - Albert A. Michelson Medal Laureates".
Franklin Institute. Archived from
the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
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"Comstock Prize in Physics". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from
the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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"The Harvey Prize".
Technion. Archived from
the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
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"Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science".
American Physical Society. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
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^ Manz, Jrn; Wste, Ludger, eds. (1994). Femtosecond Chemistry.
doi:
10.1002/9783527619436.
ISBN
9783527619436. Look in chapter
Contributors’ CVs and Addresses page 825.
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"Peter P. Sorokin, 84, physicist". Obituaries. Lewisboro Ledger. Lewisboro, New York. 28 September 2015. Archived from
the original on 1 October 2015.
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