Citizenship Russian Notable awards Rusanoprize (2009) Academic advisor Igor Tamm | Fields Theoretical physics Known for Keldysh formalism | |
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Native name Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh Born 7 April 1931
Moscow ( 1931-04-07 ) Institutions Lebedev Physical Institute Died 11 November 2016, Moscow, Russia Awards RUSNANOPRIZE for Nanoelectronics Institution Lebedev Physical Institute Similar Igor Tamm, Alfred Y Cho, Ilya Frank, Pavel Cherenkov | ||
Leonid Keldysh (7 April 1931 – 11 November 2016) was a Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He was known for the Keldysh formalism, a quantum mechanics framework for describing a system in a non-equilibrium state. In 2009 he was awarded the Rusnanoprize, an international nanotechnology award, for his work related to molecular beam epitaxy.
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