Alexei Abrikosov
1928
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2017
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Russia, United States of America, Soviet Union
native language: Russian
educated at: MSU Faculty of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
occupation: physicist, university teacher
award received: USSR State Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Fritz London Memorial Prizes, Lenin Prize, Landau Gold Medal, Wolf Prize in Physics
student of: Lev Landau
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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