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Alexei Abrikosov
Alexei Abrikosov · AA_Abrikosov_and_VL_Ginzburg_ANL.jpg : ANL.gov derivative work: Materialscientist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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Alexei Abrikosov

1928 – 2017 · aged 89

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

Born
25 Jun 1928 · Moscow
Died
29 Mar 2017 · Palo Alto
Part ofRussia1223 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 25 Jun 1928BornBorn in Moscow
  2. 1966AwardLenin Prize
  3. 1972AwardFritz London Award
  4. 1976AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Lausanne
  5. 1982AwardUSSR State Prize
  6. 1989AwardLandau Gold Medal
  7. 1991AwardJohn Bardeen Prize
  8. 2003AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I
  9. 2003AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  10. 2006AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Orléans
  11. 2015AwardVernadsky medal
  12. 29 Mar 2017DiedDied in Palo Alto

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1928 – 2017).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Russian-American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.

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