Peter Sorokin

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.

[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]).

In 1974 Sorokin received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute.

[7] In 1991 he received the first Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society.

Sorokin died at the age of 84 on 24 September 2015 from injuries incurred in a fall in August.