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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: 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. 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... full article at wikipedia
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  • 2003
  • for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
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