Vitaly Ginzburg

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Russian physicist (1916-2009)

ScientistsLived 1916 to 2009 · aged 93

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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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Ginzburg, Moscow, December 1980.

Ginzburg reads a Nobel lecture in Moscow State University.

Awards 19

2006Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class

2003Nobel Prize in Physics

2003Fellow of the American Physical Society

1998UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal

1998Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach

1996Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

1995Lomonosov Gold Medal

1995Wolf Prize in Physics

1991Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

1987Foreign Member of the Royal Society

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1966Lenin Prize

1953State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

1948Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Order of Lenin

Order of the Badge of Honour

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Humboldt Prize

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SpouseOlga Zamsha Ginzburg

SpouseNina Yermakova Ginzburg

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Neil deGrasse TysonAlso won Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach