# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lev-gor-kov
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:40.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lev-gor-kov"
name: "Lev Gor'kov"
slug: "lev-gor-kov"
description: "Lev Petrovich Gor'kov was a Russian-American research physicist internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity. He was particularly famous for developing microscopic foundations of the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity. Gor'kov was a professor of physics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and a program director in Condensed Matter at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. He was one of the Magnet Lab's founding scientists."
tagline: "Russian-American physicist (1929-2016)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1929-06-14"
deathDate: "2016-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Горьков, Лев Петрович"
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    title: "Lev Gor'kov"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump