[FPSPACE] Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Scientist Vitaly Ginzburg

[LARRY KLAES]

Monday, November 9, 2009

Deceased--Vitaly Ginzburg 


Vitaly Ginzburg
October 4th, 1916 to August 8th, 2009

"Soviet H-bomb scientist Ginzburg dies"

by

Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Stott

November 9th, 2009

Reuters

Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93.

Ginzburg won the 2003 Nobel physics prize for developing the theory behind superconductors, materials which allow electricity to pass without resistance at very low temperatures. He shared the prize with British-American Anthony Leggett and Russian-born U.S. scientist Alexei Abrikosov.

But Ginzburg's career as a Soviet scientist almost ended when he took as his second wife a woman arrested in 1944 and sentenced to three years in labor camps for supposedly plotting against Stalin's life. State anti-Semitism was flourishing and an attack on Ginzburg was published in a journal.

"I can only guess what fate awaited me in this situation at this time," Ginzburg wrote in an autobiographical article written for the Nobel prize committee. "I think that it would have cost me dear but I was saved by the hydrogen bomb."

 

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