Arkady Vainshtein (; born 24 February 1942) is a Russian and American Professor Emeritus of

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who was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2005) and

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(1999) for theoretical physics.

Biography

Vainshtein was born on 24 February 1942 in

Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk (, , ; )Чиспияков Э. Ф. (1992) ''Учебник шорского языка''. Кемеровское книжное издательство. p. 27. is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in southwestern Siberia, Russia ...

, Russia. He got his Ph.D. from

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentyev Avenue, Novosibirsk, Academician Lavrentiev ...

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...

, 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

. In 2004 he started to work for

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in Santa Barbara,

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, and a year later was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize from the

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. 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.Dirac Medallists 2016
Retrieved 28 July 2019.

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1942 births Living people People from Novokuznetsk Scientists from Novosibirsk Novosibirsk State University alumni University of Minnesota faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients 21st-century American physicists Russian physicists Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University {{US-physicist-stub

Biography

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