Vitaly L. Ginzburg#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 808 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
Vitaly L. Ginzburg passed away November 8, 2009.
Positions Held
- 1940 - 2009 P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1971 - 1988 Head of I.E.Tamm Theory Department, at the present time - Adviser of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
- 1968 - 2009 Part time - professor of Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology
- 1945 - 2009 Part time - professor of Gor'ky State Universitysince
Fields of Scholarship
- Astrophysics
- Physics
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
- 2002 Triumph Prize
- 1999 American Physical Society's Nicholson Medal
- 1998 Unesco's Niels Bohr Medal
- 1996 Awarded the Order of Lenin, other Soviet orders and medals, the Order "For Services for the Motherland"
- 1995 Vavilov Gold Medal
- 1995 Lomonosov Big Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1994/95 Wolf Prize
- 1991 Gold Medal of London Royal Astronomic Society
- 1991 Bardeen Prize
- 1987 Awarded Smolukhovsky Medal of Polish Physical Society
- 1966 Lenin Prize
- 1962 Lomonosov Prize
- 1953 State Prize
- 1947 Mandelstam Prize
