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Leonid Keldysh

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Soviet and Russian physicist (1931-2016)

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Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh was a Soviet and Russian physicist. 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.

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2015Lomonosov Gold Medal
2014Pomeranchuk Prize
2011Feenberg Medal
2009International Prize in Nanotechnology
2005Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov Gold Medal
2003Russian President's Prize in the field of education
1999Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
1985Order of the October Revolution
1975Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1975EPS Europhysics Prize
1974Lenin Prize

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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.

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Lived 1931 to 2016 · aged 85
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