Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
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, active in the field of probability theory
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. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University
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, where he obtained his PhD
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 in 1949.

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