Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg
Born	Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (1916-10-04)October 4, 1916 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	November 8, 2009(2009-11-08) (aged 93) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Superconductivity Plasmas Superfluidity Ferroelectricity
Spouse(s)	Olga Zamsha Ginzburg (1937–1946; divorced; 1 child) Nina Yermakova Ginzburg (m. 1946)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (2003) Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/95) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1995) ForMemRS (1987)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Igor Tamm
Doctoral students	Viatcheslav Mukhanov Alexander Polnarev

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS^[1] (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was of Jewish descent.^[2]

Ginzburg was a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist.^[3]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.^[4]

Ginzburg died in Moscow on November 8, 2009 from cardiac arrest, aged 93.^[5]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Longair, M. S. (2011). "Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg. 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 57: 129–146. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0002. S2CID 71295700.
2. ↑ "Nobelprize.org". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
3. ↑ Nikonov, Vyacheslav (September 30, 2004). "Physicists have nothing to do with miracles". Social Sciences (3): 148–150. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
4. ↑ "Vitaly L. Ginzburg". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
5. ↑ Thomas H. Maugh II (November 10, 2009). "Vitaly Ginzburg dies at 93; Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist". Los Angeles Times.