Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (; October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was of Jewish descent.

Ginzburg was a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.

Ginzburg died in Moscow on November 8, 2009 from cardiac arrest, aged 93.

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Other websites

Vitaly L. Ginzburg , Autobiography in English at Nobelprize.org
Ginzburg's homepage 
Curriculum Vitae
Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin
Obituary The Daily Telegraph 11 Nov 2009.
Obituary The Independent November 14, 2009 (by Martin Childs).
 Biography 
 Obituary

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