Published “Thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites: Fundamentals and applications” in Progress in Polymer Science — cited 1,985 times.
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS 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."
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Born 21 September 1916 · Died 8 November 2009 · Q104668
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Published “Thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites: Fundamentals and applications” in Progress in Polymer Science — cited 1,985 times.
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
The Independent: Vitaly Ginzburg: Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped the Soviet Union develop the hydrogen bomb
Physics World: Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Died 2009-11-08.
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Physics World: Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics
Published “The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider” in Journal of Instrumentation — cited 1,616 times.
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2006).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2003).
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For their groundbreaking work on the theory of superconductors
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Together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
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Published his list of 30 problems for the 21st century
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Won UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (1998).
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Won Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach (1998).
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Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1996).
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1995).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1995).
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1991).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1987).
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The list included 17 problems, and 20 problems in 1985
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Won Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970).
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Awarded Lenin Prize (1966).
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For this research on the properties of the superfluid liquid helium in 1941
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1954).
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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1953).
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Led to the development of the Ginzburg-Landau theory, which became paramount to later work on superconductors
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Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948).
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Married his second wife, Nina Ginzburg (nee Yermakova), who had spent more than a year in custody on fabricated charges of plotting to assassinate the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
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Became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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And his comprehensive thesis for the doctor's (Doktor Nauk) qualification in 1942
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Ginzburg married Olga Zamsha
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Born 1916-09-21.
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