work_institution birth_place |name image_size field birth_date article_title prizes alma_mater
leningrad institute for nuclear physics mit princeton columbia leningrad , russia boris altshuler 150px condensed matter physics 27 january 1955 boris altshuler
 hewlett-packard condensed matter prize -lrb- 2003 -rrb- europhysics prize -lrb- 1993 -rrb- oliver e. buckley university of st. petersburg leningrad institute for nuclear physics
boris altshuler

boris altshuler -lrb- born 27 january 1955 in leningrad , ussr -rrb- is a professor of physics at columbia university .
his specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics .
altshuler received his diploma in physics from leningrad state university in 1976 .
he continued on at the leningrad institute for nuclear physics , where he was awarded his ph.d. in physics in 1979 .
altshuler stayed at the institute for the next ten years as a research fellow .
in 1989 , altshuler joined the faculty of the massachusetts institute of technology .
while there , he received the hewlett-packard europhysics prize -lrb- now called the agilent physics prize -rrb- and became a fellow of the american physical society .
altshuler left mit in 1996 to take a professorship at princeton university .
while there , he became affiliated with nec laboratories america .
recently , altshuler has joined the faculty of columbia and continues to work with the nec labs .
