Vitaly Ginzburg facts for kids
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Vitaly Ginzburg
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg
October 4, 1916 |
| Died | November 8, 2009 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
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| Spouse(s) | Olga Zamsha Ginzburg (1937–1946; divorced; 1 child) Nina Yermakova Ginzburg (m. 1946) |
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| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Doctoral advisor | Igor Tamm |
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 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.
Ginzburg died in Moscow on November 8, 2009 from cardiac arrest, aged 93.
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Ginzburg reads a Nobel lecture in Moscow State University.
