Vitaly Ginzburg

<p>Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">ForMemRS</a> (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October [<a href="/facts/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates/kb3020Wy">O.S.</a> 21 September] 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a <a href="/facts/List_of_Russian_physicists/YrgfVT1K">Russian physicist</a> who was honored with the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize</a> in <a href="/facts/Physics/a7aH2y08">Physics</a> in 2003, together with <a href="/facts/Alexei_Alexeyevich_Abrikosov/I4Gwb0yB">Alexei Abrikosov</a> and <a href="/facts/Anthony_James_Leggett/z6AcXNbA">Anthony Leggett</a> for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
</p><p>He spent his career in the former <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> and was one of the leading figure in former  <a href="/facts/Russian_atomic_bomb/b5kFJIPY">Soviet program of nuclear weapons</a>, working towards designs of the <a href="/facts/RDS-37/GFGsMb2W">thermonuclear devices</a>. He became a member of the  <a href="/facts/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences/RuUqhtFb">Russian Academy of Sciences</a> and succeeded <a href="/facts/Igor_Tamm/s3MDVyJj">Igor Tamm</a> as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the <a href="/facts/Lebedev_Physical_Institute/pV2sbo70">Lebedev Physical Institute</a> of the Russian Academy of Sciences (<a href="/facts/Lebedev_Physical_Institute/pV2sbo70">FIAN</a>). In his later life, Ginzburg become an outspoken <a href="/facts/Atheism/patUWN1f">atheist</a> and was critical of <a href="/facts/Russian_Orthodox_Church/AHbnwM6p">clergy</a>'s influence in Russian society.
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