Vitaly Ginzburg

**Vitaly L. Ginsburg** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginsburg</td></tr>
Born	October 4 1916 Moscow, Russia <tr><th>Residence</th><td>Russia Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Russia Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Physicist</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>Moscow State University</td></tr><tr><th>Academic Advisor</th><td><please insert></td></tr><tr><th>Notable Students</th><td><please insert></td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Plasmas, superfluidity</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Prizes</th><td>Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)</td></tr>

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург; born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN). He graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1938, defended candidate's (Ph.D.) dissertation in 1940 and doctor's dissertation in 1942. Since 1940 up to present time (as of 2004) he works in the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. Among his achievements are a partially phenomenological theory of superconductivity, developed with Landau in 1950, the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas such as the ionosphere, and a theory of the origin of cosmic radiation. In the 1950s he played a key role in the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb.