37-590: Andrei Evgenievich Gusev (Russian: Андрей Евгеньевич Гусев , born 27 October 1952) is a Russian writer and journalist. He is the author of 10 inventions, 23 published scientific works. One of his co-authors is a winner of the Nobel Prize, a legend of the Soviet physics, the academician Alexander Prokhorov . Andrei Gusev was born in former Soviet Union , in Moscow. His parents were engineers. His father Evgeny Gusev
74-402: A chromium -doped variation of aluminium oxide, he came upon the idea of using this material as an active medium of a laser . As a new type of laser resonator, he proposed, in 1958, an "open type" cavity design, which is widely used today. In 1963, together with A. S. Selivanenko, he suggested a laser using two-quantum transitions. For his pioneering work on lasers and masers, in 1964, he received
111-450: A national conference in 1952, but not published until 1954–1955. In 1955, Prokhorov started his research in the field of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). He focused on relaxation times of ions of the iron group elements in a lattice of aluminium oxide , but also investigated other, "non-optical", topics, such as magnetic phase transitions in DPPH . In 1957, while studying ruby ,
148-482: A number of return bus services during a seven-day week between Atherton, Tolga, Walkamin, Mareeba, Kuranda, and Cairns including drop-offs to airport, railway station, hospitals and bus depots. There are connections available between Ravenshoe and Herberton and along the Wheelbarrow Way to Chillagoe. There is an Atherton taxi service. Atherton has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Atherton has
185-561: A vibrant social and cultural life. Atherton is very attractive to retirees and " tree changers " due to the cool climate, fertile garden soils, housing prices significantly lower than the nearby coastal city of Cairns, and the vibrant cultural life (live music, visual arts, theatre and sport). The land around Atherton is used to grow a variety of crops, including coffee , sugar cane , peanuts , mangoes , maize (corn) , potatoes , avocados , blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and macadamia nuts . Dairy and beef cattle are also reared in
222-738: Is at 28 Mabel Street. It is within the Atherton Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns . Atherton Uniting Church is on the corner of Jack Street and Victoria Street ( 17°16′00″S 145°28′51″E / 17.2666°S 145.4808°E / -17.2666; 145.4808 ( Atherton Uniting Church ) ). Atherton Hospital is in the Tablelands Health District. The hospital provides obstetric, medical, surgical, operating theatre, accident and emergency services. Trans North offers
259-625: Is currently leading a laser-related laboratory at the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute. Atherton, Queensland Download coordinates as: Atherton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,724 people. Atherton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland . Atherton
296-752: Is joined by the Gillies Highway to Yungaburra , the Kennedy Highway north to Mareeba and south to Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet , the Malanda–Atherton Road to Malanda and the Atherton–Herberton Road to Herberton . Yidinji (also known as Yidinj , Yidiny , and Idindji ) is an Australian Aboriginal language . Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region , in such localities as Cairns , Gordonvale , and
333-415: The 2011 census , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,287 people. In the 2016 census , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,331 people. In the 2021 census , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,724 people. Due to its moderate climate, cooler and less humid than the tropical coast, and its booming agricultural industries, Atherton has a busy and prosperous community, and
370-656: The Mulgrave River , and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi . The town was named after John Atherton , a pioneer pastoralist who settled at Mareeba (then known as Emerald End) in 1875. The area was formerly known as Priors Pocket or Priors Creek. It was named Atherton by Falconer West Hutton, the surveyor who prepared the town layout on 11 May 1885. Atherton Provisional School opened on 2 March 1891 and closed in 1905. In 1906, it reopened as Atherton State School. Atherton Pioneer Cemetery opened in 1897 and closed in 1927 when
407-817: The Nobel Prize in Physics shared with Nikolay Basov and Charles Hard Townes . In 1959, Prokhorov became a professor at Moscow State University – the most prestigious university in the Soviet Union; the same year, he was awarded the Lenin Prize . In 1960, he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and elected Academician in 1966. In 1967, he was awarded his first Order of Lenin (he received five of them during life, in 1967, 1969, 1975, 1981 and 1986). In 1968, he became vice-director of
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#1732772145348444-603: The Optical Society of America (OSA), in 2000 and became an Honorary OSA Member in 2001. The same year, he was awarded the Demidov Prize . He died on 8 January 2002 at Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery . Prokhorov became a member of the Communist Party in 1950. In 1983, together with three other academicians – Andrey Tychonoff , Anatoly Dorodnitsyn and Georgy Skryabin – he signed
481-780: The tsarist regime. As a child he attended Butchers Creek State School. In 1923, after the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War , the family returned to Russia. In 1934, Prokhorov entered the Saint Petersburg State University to study physics. He was a member of the Komsomol from 1930 to 1944. Prokhorov graduated with honors in 1939 and moved to Moscow to work at the Lebedev Physical Institute , in
518-480: The 2010s Andrei Gusev developed the themes of BDSM subculture in Russia. Themes include female domination , bondage , erotic spanking and BDSM fiction. Andrei Gusev served as a prototype for one of the main characters – Andrei Lebedev, a journalist of the newspaper Moskovskij Bogomolets , which is very similar to the famous Moskovskij Komsomolets – in the thriller novel Journalists by Sergei Aman . In
555-716: The General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and after 1998 as honorary director. After his death in 2002, the institute was renamed the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute [ Wikidata ] of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prokhorov was a Member and one of the Honorary Presidents of the International Academy of Science, Munich and supported 1993 the foundation and development of
592-663: The Lebedev Institute and in 1971 took the position of Head of Laboratory of another prestigious Soviet institution, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . In the same year, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1983 he was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Between 1982 and 1998, Prokhorov served as acting director of
629-480: The Lebedev Institute where, in 1946, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Theory of Stabilization of Frequency of a Tube Oscillator in the Theory of a Small Parameter". In 1947, Prokhorov started working on coherent radiation emitted by electrons orbiting in a cyclic particle accelerator called a synchrotron . He demonstrated that the emission is mostly concentrated in the microwave spectral range. His results became
666-678: The Rockley Road Cemetery was opened. Atherton Post Office opened by 1903 (a receiving office had been open since 1889). Cairns Road State School opened on 18 July 1921 and closed in 1963. It was on Picnic Crossing Road South (approx 17°16′28″S 145°31′27″E / 17.27449°S 145.52424°E / -17.27449; 145.52424 ( Cairns Road State School (former) ) ). St Joseph's School opened on 29 January 1923. The Atherton War Memorial commemorates local residents who died in World War I . It
703-632: The Russian Section of International Academy of Science, Moscow. In 1969, Prokhorov became a Hero of Socialist Labour , the highest degree of distinction in the Soviet Union for achievements in national economy and culture. He received the second such award in 1986. Starting in 1969, he was the chief editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . He was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal, the highest distinction of
740-513: The area. Each year towards the end of August, Atherton celebrates the Maize festival, which features a parade with decorated floats, the Maize Queen pageant, children's amusement rides and activities including tug of war and wood chopping. There are also shop window displays and artwork competitions, as well as a prize given to the best float. The annual Atherton Agricultural Show is held in
777-541: The basis of his habilitation on "Coherent Radiation of Electrons in the Synchrotron Accelerator", defended in 1951. By 1950, Prokhorov was assistant chief of the oscillation laboratory. Around that time, he formed a group of young scientists to work on radiospectroscopy of molecular rotations and vibrations, and later on quantum electronics . The group focused on a special class of molecules which have three (non-degenerate) moments of inertia. The research
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#1732772145348814-557: The building. The Atherton Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns was established in 1949. William John Bock was an early pioneer in Atherton. He made an audio recording discussing the early town, prior to his death on 19 February 1953 (aged 95). Atherton State High School opened on 27 January 1959. The Atherton Public Library was opened in 1978. Jubilee Christian College opened on 1 July 1984. In
851-470: The famous open letter called "when they lose honor and conscience" (Когда теряют честь и совесть), denouncing Andrey Sakharov 's article in the Foreign Affairs . Both of Prokhorov's parents died during World War II. Prokhorov married geographer Galina Shelepina in 1941, and they had a son, Kiril, born in 1945. Following his father, Kiril Prokhorov became a physicist in the field of optics and
888-489: The first books of the writer were published: a collection " Ticket to America " (1992) and " Presentation " (1993). Then he published " Mister Novelist " (1994), " With Chronos' Permit " (1995), "The Russian Story" (1996) and also the story collection " On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds " (1998). He published his novels "The Painter & Eros" and "Role Plays" in 2003 and " The World According to Novikoff " in 2006. In his prose in
925-609: The novel by the same author Everything Will Be Okay, We're All Going to Die! Gusev was described under his own name, as a journalist Andrei Gusev. Andrei Gusev lives in Moscow. He was married twice and divorced twice. His first wife, Nina Guseva (née Odnoletko), worked as a nurse; his second wife, Ivetta Sarkisyan, is a philologist by training. He has two daughters. His hobby is beekeeping. Alexander Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff , Russian : Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров ; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002)
962-576: The oscillations laboratory headed by academician N. D. Papaleksi . His research there was devoted to propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere . At the onset of World War II , in June 1941, he joined the Red Army . Prokhorov fought in the infantry, was wounded twice in battles, and was awarded three medals, including the Medal For Courage in 1946. He was demobilized in 1944 and returned to
999-431: The school had an enrolment of 252 students with 19 teachers (16 full-time equivalent) and 14 non-teaching staff (8 full-time equivalent). Jubilee Christian College is a private primary and secondary (Prep–12) school for boys and girls at 52 Grau Street ( 17°16′30″S 145°28′46″E / 17.27494°S 145.47945°E / -17.27494; 145.47945 ( Jubilee Christian College ) ). In 2017,
1036-469: The school had an enrolment of 473 students with 45 teachers (37 full-time equivalent) and 35 non-teaching staff (22 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. St Joseph's School is a Catholic primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at the corner of Jack & Alice Streets ( 17°15′56″S 145°28′43″E / 17.26554°S 145.47864°E / -17.26554; 145.47864 ( St Joseph's School ) ). In 2017,
1073-537: The school had an enrolment of 780 students with 82 teachers (78 full-time equivalent) and 42 non-teaching staff (34 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. It also has a virtual campus called the School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Atherton has a technical and further education (TAFE) campus, the Tropical North Institute of TAFE. There are also two day care centres in
1110-414: The school had an enrolment of 908 students with 47 teachers (37 full-time equivalent) and 45 non-teaching staff (26 full-time equivalent). Atherton State High School is a government secondary (7–12) school for boys and girls at Maunds Road ( 17°15′36″S 145°29′10″E / 17.2600°S 145.4860°E / -17.2600; 145.4860 ( Atherton State High School ) ). In 2017,
1147-519: The second week of July at Atherton Show grounds including Heritage Listed Merriland Hall . The Atherton Roosters field teams in the Cairns District Rugby League . Atherton State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 28 Armstrong Street ( 17°15′42″S 145°28′54″E / 17.2616°S 145.4816°E / -17.2616; 145.4816 ( Atherton State School ) ). In 2017,
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1184-641: The special correspondent of the All-Russia " Rossiyskaya Gazeta " and dep. editor-in-chief of the youth newspaper "Stupeni". Since 1993 Andrei Gusev serves as editor-in-chief of "The New Medical Gazette" (published in Russian). Andrei Gusev is the author of several hundreds articles in " Moskovskij Komsomolets ", " Rossiyskaya Gazeta ", " Sovetskaya Rossiya ", " Vechernyaya Moskva ", " The Moscow News ", "Stupeni", "The New Medical Gazette" , magazines "Auto M", "Stolitza" , "Yatt" etc. Within work in "Stupeni"
1221-697: The town. The Tablelands Regional Council operates the Atherton Library on 16 Robert Street, Atherton. The library facility opened in 1978, with a major refurbishment in 2012. The Atherton branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall on the corner of Jack Street and Arnott Lane ( 17°15′53″S 145°28′38″E / 17.2648°S 145.4773°E / -17.2648; 145.4773 ( Atherton CWA Hall ) ) St Joseph's Catholic Church
1258-542: Was a Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers in the former Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov . Alexander Michael Prochoroff was born on 11 July 1916 at Russell Road, Peeramon , Queensland , Australia (now 322 Gadaloff Road, Butchers Creek , situated about 30 km from Atherton ), to Mikhail Ivanovich Prokhorov and Maria Ivanovna (née Mikhailova), Russian revolutionaries who had emigrated from Russia to escape repression by
1295-590: Was born in Chernihiv Oblast of Ukraine; his mother Rosalind Maltseva was born in Moscow. Andrei Gusev graduated the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1975. The next eleven years he worked as a scientific employee (a medical physicist) in public health services. Also in these years he received a medical education. In 1990 Andrei Gusev became a correspondent of the daily " Moskovskij Komsomolets ". Later he worked as
1332-407: Was conducted both on experiment and theory. In 1954, Prokhorov became head of the laboratory. Together with Nikolay Basov he developed theoretical grounds for creation of a molecular oscillator and constructed such a device based on ammonia . They also proposed a method for the production of population inversion using inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields. Their results were first presented at
1369-640: Was dedicated on 1 May 1924 by the Tinaroo Shire chairman, Frederick Grau. It is the only war memorial in Queensland of a digger in an animated pose, It was originally located in the middle of the street adjacent to where the ANZ bank is now located, but was later moved to the park outside the old Atherton RSL sometime after the 1950s. The Atherton Courthouse was used as a wartime hospital for officers during World War II and has air raid bunkers beneath
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