Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург; born 4 October 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate 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 Fac...
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург; born 4 October 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate 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 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 is the editor in chief...
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