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.[1]
Biography
editVainshtein 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[2] 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[1] and also holds a position as Professor since 1990. In 1997 he became a fellow at the APS[3] 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.[1] Professor Vainshtein was awarded the 2014 Julius Wess Award by The KIT Center Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA)[4] and the 2016 Dirac Medal of the ICTP.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Arkady Vainshtein UMN Physics BIO". Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ About Vainshtein in Russian Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1997 and institution=University of Minnesota)
- ^ "Julius Wess Award". 2018-04-30. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ Dirac Medallists 2016 Retrieved 28 July 2019.
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