Alexei Abrikosov - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2003
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Alexei Abrikosov

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2003
for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
Citizenship
Soviet UnionSoviet UnionRussiaRussiaUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English, French, Russian
date of birth
6/25/1928
place of birth
Moscow
date of death
3/29/2017
place of death
Palo Alto
Lived
88 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
field of work
  • theoretical physics
  • condensed matter physics
educated at
  • MSU Faculty of Physics
    • start time: 1945
    • end time: 1951
employer
  • Utah State University
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
    • start time: 1948
    • end time: 1965
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Loughborough University
  • Bauman Moscow State Technical University
  • Institute for High Pressure Physics
    • start time: 1988
    • end time: 1991
  • P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
    • start time: 1948
    • end time: 1965
  • National University of Science and Technology
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
  • Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
    • start time: 1965
    • end time: 1988
  • University of Illinois Chicago
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/10/2001
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1987
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2007
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2000
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Andrey Varlamov
notable work
  • condensed matter physics
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