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Vitaly Ginzburg

1916 - 2009

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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October [O.S. 21 September] 1916 – 8 November 2009) 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." He spent his career in the former Soviet Union and was one of the leading figure in former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, working towards designs of the thermonuclear devices. He became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and succeeded Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN). In his later life, Ginzburg become an outspoken atheist and was critical of clergy's influence in Russian society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vitaly Ginzburg is the 237th most popular physicist (down from 221st in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Russia (up from 266th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Physicist.

Vitaly Ginzburg is most famous for being a Soviet physicist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work on superconductivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 237 out of 851. Before him are Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Leo Esaki. After him are Nikolay Basov, Arthur Ashkin, Willard Boyle, John Cockcroft, Gérard Mourou, and William Shockley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 33. Before him are Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Walt Whitman Rostow, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Alexander Prokhorov, and Paul Keres. After him are Ruth Handler, Natalia Ginzburg, Abdul Rahman Arif, Robert F. Furchgott, Bernard Lewis, and Emil Gilels. Among people deceased in 2009, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 21. Before him are David Carradine, Sydney Chaplin, Abdurrahman Wahid, Mercedes Sosa, Farrah Fawcett, and Amin al-Hafiz. After him are Omar Bongo, Les Paul, Karl Malden, Raúl Alfonsín, Milorad Pavić, and Robert F. Furchgott.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 224 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Blokhin (1895), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Alexei Navalny (1976), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930). After him are Gustav Bauer (1870), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), The French Angel (1903), Gherman Titov (1935), Viktor Zubkov (1941), and Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vitaly Ginzburg ranks 11. Before him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894). After him are Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), and Vladimir Shukhov (1853).

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