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Vitaly Ginzburg
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Born	Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ; October 4, 1916; Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	November 8, 2009 (aged 93); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Superconductivity; Plasmas; Superfluidity; Ferroelectricity;
Spouse(s)	Olga Zamsha Ginzburg (1937–1946; divorced; 1 child); Nina Yermakova Ginzburg (m. 1946)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (2003); Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/95); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1995); ForMemRS (1987);
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Igor Tamm
Doctoral students	Viatcheslav Mukhanov; Alexander Polnarev;

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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