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Vitaly Ginzburg

1916 - 2009

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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids." His career in physics was spent in the former Soviet Union and was one of the leading figure in former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, working towards designs of the thermonuclear devices. He became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and succeeded Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vitaly Ginzburg has received more than 267,640 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Vitaly Ginzburg is the 220th most popular physicist (down from 212th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Russia (up from 301st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Physicist.

Vitaly Ginzburg is most famous for being a Soviet physicist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work on superconductivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 220 out of 851. Before him are Abdus Salam, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, Clifford Shull, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.. After him are John L. Hall, John Clauser, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy J. Glauber, and Frederick Reines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 33. Before him are Jack Vance, Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Natalia Ginzburg, Dương Văn Minh, and Abdul Rahman Arif. After him are Paul Keres, Sune Bergström, Christian B. Anfinsen, Peter Weiss, Bernard Lewis, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. Among people deceased in 2009, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 24. Before him are Les Paul, Raúl Alfonsín, Robert McNamara, Milorad Pavić, Ted Kennedy, and Vivian Maier. After him are Ralf Dahrendorf, Bobby Robson, Jean Dausset, Maurice Druon, Jack Kemp, and Robert F. Furchgott.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 266 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Alexander Blok (1880), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Mykola Azarov (1947), and Natalia Goncharova (1881). After him are Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Lyudmila Putina (1958).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 13. Before him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894). After him are Alexey Ekimov (1945), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891).

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