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Fields
  
Theoretical physics

Field
  
Theoretical physics

Alma mater
  
MSU Faculty of Physics

Semyon Gershtein httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Native name
  
Russian: Семён Соломонович Герштейн

Born
  
July 13, 1929Harbin, China (
1929-07-13
)

Academic advisors
  
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Anatoly Vlasov

Institutions
  
Institute for High Energy Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Notable awards
  
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", Order of Honour, USSR State Prize

Similar
  
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Anatoly Vlasov, Vitaly Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett

Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein (Born July 13, 1929; Harbin) is a Soviet and Russian physicist. He is an academician of Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003. He is a USSR State Prize laureate.

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Biography

After graduating from the Department of Nuclear Physics (Faculty of Physics) in Moscow State University, he worked at a school in Kaluga Oblast until 1954. In 1955, he entered the graduate school of the Institute for Physical Problems.

He was a senior researcher in the Institute for High Energy Physics. He went on to become a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1963).

He has authored more than two hundred publications and several scientific discoveries.

Honors and Awards

  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class (2005) — for his great contribution to the development of nuclear energy, a productive scientific activities and many years of conscientious work
  • Order of Honour (Russia) (September 25, 1999) — for services to the state, many years of hard work and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation among peoples
  • USSR State Prize
  • Pomeranchuk Prize from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (2011)
  • Landau Gold Medal (2013)

    • References

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