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Archival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectA. A. Abrikosov
Dates
June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017
Authorized Form of Name
Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)
Additional Forms of Names
Abrikosov, Aleksei Alekseevich
Abrikosov, Aleksej Alekseevic, 1928-
Biography
Abstract
Russian physicist (statistical physics). Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003.
Important Dates
June 25, 1928Birth in Moscow (Soviet Union), Moscow (Russia).
1948Obtained MSc (Diploma), Moscow State University, Moscow (Russia).
1951PhD (Candidate of Science), thesis on quantum electrodynamics at high energies, Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow (Russia).
1951 – 1965Junior Scientist to Senior Scientist, Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow (Russia).
1951 – 1976Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow (Russia).
1955Habilitation, Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow (Russia).
1965 – 1988Head, Department of the Theory of Solids, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka (Russia).
1972Awarded the International Fritz London Award.
1976 – 1991Chair for Theoretical Physics, Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys, Moscow (Russia).
1988Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
1988 – 1991 Director, Institute for High Pressure Physics, Troitsk.
1991 – presentDistinguished Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont (Ill.).
1992Fellow, American Physical Society.
1994 – presentAdjunct Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1999Became a naturalized US citizen.
2000Member, National Academy of Sciences.
2001Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.
2003Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Anthony J. Leggett and Vitaly Ginzburg.
March 29, 2017Death, Palo Alto (Calif.).
Occupation
Theoretical condensed matter physicist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Free electron theory of metals.
Relationships
People
Family
Abrikosov, I. A. (Ivan Alekseevich)
Father. Soviet pathologist, full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Advisors & Collaborators
Ginzburg, V. L. (Vitaliĭ Lazarevich), 1916-2009
Received 2003 Nobel Prize along with Anthony J. Leggett for their work on "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
Gor'kov, L. P. (Lev Petrovich), 1929-
Together discovered the possibility of the so-called gapless superconductivity. Also solved the mystery of the finite Knight shift at zero temperature, taking into account the spin-orbit scattering.
Khalatnikov, I. M. (Isaak Markovich)
Together constructed the theory of superconductors in a high-frequency field. Also, worked on nonsuperfluid He3 thermodynamics, kinetics, sound dispersion.
Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968
PhD advisor at Institute for Physical Problems, thesis on thermal diffusion in completely and incompletely ionized plasmas.
Received 2003 Nobel Prize along with Vitaly Ginzburg for their work on "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
Zavaritsky, N. V. (Nikolai V.)
Together discovered Type II superconductors.
Colleagues
Bollinger, Lowell M. (Lowell Moyer)
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Additional
Hoddeson, Lillian
Pippard, A. B.
Institutions
Major Positions
Distinguished Senior Scientist.
Institut fizicheskikh problem (Akademia nauk SSSR)
Obtained Ph.D. (Candidate of Science), thesis on quantum electrodynamics at high energies in 1951; Habilitation; and Junior Scientist to Senior Scientist.
Institut fiziki vysokikh davlenii (Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk)
Director.
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Head, Department of the Theory of Solids.
Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova. Fizika
Obtained MSc Diploma in 1948 and Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics.
Moskovskii institut stali I splavov
Chair for Theoretical Physics.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Adjunct Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Resources
Archival Resources
Subject
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alfred Brian Pippard, 1982 September 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Physical Problems records, 1935-1982.
Library
Institut fizicheskikh problem (Akademiia nauk SSSR).
ul. A. N. Kosygina 2, Moscow 117973, Russia
Published Resources
Author
Osnovy teorii metallov / A. A. Abrikosov.
Vvedenie v teoriiu normalnykh metallov / A. A. Abrikosov.