Vitaly Ginzburg

Physicist, Academic

1916 – 2009

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Who was Vitaly Ginzburg?

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute, and an outspoken atheist. He was also known as supporter of the State of Israel and as person valuing his secular Jewish identity.

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Born
Oct 4, 1916
Moscow
Also known as
  • V. L. Ginzburg
Religion
  • Atheism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • Russia
Profession
Education
  • Moscow State University
Lived in
  • Russia
Died
Nov 8, 2009
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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