Mikhail "Misha" Voloshin (May 14, 1953,

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, Romania – March 20, 2020) was a Russian and American

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. Voloshin graduated from physics class of Moscow State School 57 in 1970. Voloshin started working at ITEP in 1976 and accordingly earned his Ph.D. in 1977. In 1983 he received a Soviet medal and an award in physics. Beginning in 1990, he taught quantum physics at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, a division of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. In 1997 elected a

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. In 2001 he was awarded J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics and in 2004 he was awarded the Alexander-von-Humboldt Award.In Memoriam University of Minnesota
Retrieved February 14, 2014.

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