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Arkady Vainshtein (Russian: Аркáдий Иóсифович Вайнштéйн; born 24 February 1942) is a Russian and American Professor Emeritus of Theoretical physics who was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2005) and Sakurai Prize (1999) for theoretical physics.

Biography

Vainshtein was born on 24 February 1942 in Novokuznetsk, Russia. He got his Ph.D. from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia and master's degree from Novosibirsk University where he became a Professor. He was the director of William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota where he currently serves as the Gloria Becker Lubkin chair and also holds a position as Professor since 1990. In 1997 he became a fellow at the APS and two years later was awarded Sakurai Prize. In 2004 he started to work for Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California, and a year later was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow. Professor Vainshtein was awarded the 2014 Julius Wess Award by The KIT Center Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA) and the 2016 Dirac Medal of the ICTP.

See also

• Penguin mechanism

References

1. ^ "Arkady Vainshtein UMN Physics BIO". Retrieved 28 July 2019.
2. About Vainshtein in Russian Retrieved 28 July 2019.
3. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1997 and institution=University of Minnesota)
4. "Julius Wess Award". 2018-04-30. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
5. Dirac Medallists 2016 Retrieved 28 July 2019.

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