Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg

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 250,783 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Vitaly Ginzburg is the 212th most popular physicist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 266th 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.