# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonid-keldysh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:17:25.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonid-keldysh"
name: "Leonid Keldysh"
slug: "leonid-keldysh"
description: "Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a faculty member at Texas A&M University. He is known for developing the Keldysh formalism, a powerful quantum field theory framework designed to describe a system in a non-equilibrium state, as well as for the theory of excitonic insulators. Keldysh's awards include the 2009 Rusnanoprize, an international nanotechnology award, for his work related to molecular-beam epitaxy, the 2011 Evgenii Feinberg Memorial Medal, and the 2015 Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian physicist (1931-2016)"
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birthDate: "1931-04-07"
deathDate: "2016-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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    title: "ლეონიდ კელდიში"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump