Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg

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name = Vitaly L. Ginzburg


caption =
birth_date = birth date and age|1916|10|4
birth_place = Moscow, Imperial Russia
nationality = Russia
field = Physics
work_institution = P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute
alma_mater = Moscow State University
doctoral_advisor = Igor Tamm
doctoral_students =
known_for = Plasmas, superfluidity
prizes = Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/95)
religion = Atheist
footnotes =

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ( _ru. Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург; born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist. [cite journal | journal=Social Sciences | pages=148–150 | date=2004-09-30 | issue=003 | url=http://dlib.eastview.com/sources/article.jsp?id=6670653 | accessdate=2007-09-09 | title=Physicists have nothing to do with miracles | first=Vyacheslav | last=Nikonov]

Biography

He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow in 1916, and graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1938. He defended his candidate's (Ph.D.) dissertation in 1940, and his doctor's dissertation in 1942. He has been working at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow since 1940 (as of 2004). Among his achievements are a partially phenomenological theory of superconductivity, the Ginzburg-Landau theory, developed with Landau in 1950; the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas (for example, in the ionosphere); and a theory of the origin of cosmic radiation.

Ginzburg identifies himself as a secular Jew, and since the collapse of communism in the former USSR, he has been very active in Jewish life, especially in Russia, where he served on the board of directors of the Russian Jewish Congress. He is also well known for fighting anti-Semitism and supporting the state of Israel. [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/vginzburg.html Vitaly Ginzburg, By Avi Hein, at the "Jewish Virtual Library" ] ]

Honours and awards

* USSR State Prize in 1953
* Lenin Prize in 1966
* Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1991
* Wolf Prize in Physics in 1994/5
* Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1995
* Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett.

References

External links

* [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2003/ginzburg-autobio.html Vitaly L. Ginzburg] , Autobiography in English at Nobelprize.org
* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233993/Vitaly-Lazarevich-Ginzburg Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg]
* [http://www.tamm.lpi.ru/staff/ginzburg.html Ginzburg's homepage]
* [http://www.tamm.lpi.ru/nobelprize/vlcurvit.html Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://scepsis.ru/eng/articles/id_8.php Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin]
* [http://ziv.telescopes.ru/rubric/people/index.html?pub=2 Biography]

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