The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Awarded on: 2003-10-07
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
Affiliations:
- Argonne National Laboratory – Argonne, IL, USA
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Born: 1928-06-25 in Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Gender: male
Field: Soviet–American theoretical physicist (1928–2017)
Biography
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.