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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

1928 - 2017

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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is the 201st most popular physicist (down from 182nd in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Russia (up from 209th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Physicist.

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is most famous for his work in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work in developing a theory of superconductivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 201 out of 851. Before him are Igor Tamm, Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Bertram Brockhouse, Max Delbrück, and David Brewster. After him are Kip Thorne, Hugh Everett III, Klaus von Klitzing, Karl Schwarzschild, Maurice Wilkins, and Murray Gell-Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 38. Before him are Domenico Modugno, Agnès Varda, Elie Wiesel, Martin Landau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Maya Angelou. After him are Martin Cooper, James Ivory, Hans Küng, Jean Kennedy Smith, George Peppard, and Kim Yong-nam. Among people deceased in 2017, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 31. Before him are Jerry Lewis, Glen Campbell, George Andrew Olah, Roman Herzog, Johnny Hallyday, and Martin Landau. After him are Mário Soares, Simone Veil, Slobodan Praljak, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Liu Xiaobo, and Richard F. Gordon Jr..

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 187 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Tamm (1895), Anna Netrebko (1971), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708). After him are Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Öz Beg Khan (1282), and Seraphim of Sarov (1754).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 9. Before him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), and Igor Tamm (1895). After him are Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), and Andre Geim (1958).

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