Awards & Winners

Vitaly Ginzburg

Date of Birth 04-October-1916
Place of Birth Moscow
(Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Moscow Oblast, Europe)
Nationality Russia
Also know as V. L. Ginzburg
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute, and an outspoken atheist. He was also known as supporter of the State of Israel and as person valuing his secular Jewish identity.

Awards by Vitaly Ginzburg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Vitaly Ginzburg.

2003


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids)

1995


Wolf Prize in Physics
(For his contributions to the theory of superconductivity and to the theory of high-energy processes in astrophysics.)