Science · Technology · 1916–2009
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for work on superconductivity
Did you know?He was a key figure in the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and survived the Stalinist purges.
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…
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- Would be
- 110
- Age at death
- 93
- Years since death
- 16
- Born
- September 21, 1916 · Moscow, Russia
- Died
- November 8, 2009
- Cause of death
- Heart failure
- Nationality
- Russian
- Known for
- Science, Technology
Family
- Spouses
- Nina Yermakova Ginzburg, Olga Zamsha Ginzburg
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