Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, receiving a BA degree in 1952 and a PhD in Applied Physics in 1958; his PhD thesis advisor was Nicolaas Bloembergen.
- Occupation
- physicist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 10, 1931, 1931
- Died
- September 24, 2015, 2015
