Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) (born
October 4 1916) is a
theoretical physicist and
astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the former
Soviet Union, and the successor to
Igor Tamm as head of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN). Among his achievements are a partially
phenomenological theory of
superconductivity, developed with
Landau, the theory of
electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas such as the
ionosphere, and a theory of the origin of
cosmic radiation.
He is currently (as of October 2003) at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in
Moscow,
Russia.
He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett.
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