Alexei Abrikosov
June 25, 1928 –March 29, 2017
Physicist, University teacher
Lived 88 years
- Born in
- Moscow
- Passed away in
- Palo Alto
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Russian-American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.
Notable works: condensed matter physics Awards: USSR State Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award, Lenin Prize, Landau Gold Medal, honorary doctorate from University of Orléans, Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne, honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I, John Bardeen Prize, Vernadsky medal Education: MSU Faculty of Physics
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