Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (; born October 4 1916 in Moscow ) is a Soviet / Russia n 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 .

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