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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

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Lived 1928–2017, aged 89United States
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    1928–2017
    Aged 89
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-09

He explained how matter behaves when temperatures plunge near absolute zero — work that earned him a share of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics and bridged Soviet-era theory with the experimental edge of superconductivity.

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Born in Moscow on June 25, 1928, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov built his career in condensed matter physics under the Soviet system, probing the strange states that emerge when you cool materials to the coldest realms imaginable. His theoretical contributions clarified the mechanics of superconductors and quantum phenomena at extreme low temperatures. In 2003 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett for that body of work. He carried Soviet, Russian, and eventually American citizenship through a life that spanned the Iron Curtain and the thaw. He died o…

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If they can in their proposals write the word Nano, the chances for funding increase.
— on the trends of scientific funding, especially all that relates to Nanotechnology, in an Interview with Nobel Laureates in Physics, Alexei
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