Biography:Alexander Zamolodchikov
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov | |
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| Born | 18 September 1952 Novo-Ivankovo, USSR |
| Alma mater | Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | 2D Conformal Field theory Zamolodchikov C-theorem Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations W algebra Conformal bootstrap Liouville field theory Parafermion TTbar deformation |
| Awards | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Humboldt Prize Blaise Pascal Chair Lars Onsager Prize Dirac Medal Member of the National Academy of Sciences Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics Conformal Field Theory Statistical field theory Condensed Matter Physics Integrable Systems |
| Doctoral advisor | Karen Ter-Martirosian |
Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Замоло́дчиков; born September 18, 1952) is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions conformal field theory, and statistical mechanics, and subsequently string theory and condensed matter physics.
He is widely regarded as one the most accomplished Theoretical Physicist[1] for his profound contribution to fundamentals of physics especially to Quantum Field Theories for which he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[1] in 2024. He is currently the C.N. Yang – Wei Deng Endowed Chair of Physics at Stony Brook University.[2]
Biography
Born in Novo-Ivankovo, now part of Dubna, Zamolodchikov earned a M.Sc. in nuclear engineering (1975) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a Ph.D. in physics from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1978). He joined the research staff of Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (1978) where he got an honorary doctorate (1983).
He co-authored the famous BPZ paper "Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory",[3] with Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Belavin.[3][4]
He joined Rutgers University (1990) where he co-founded Rutgers New High Energy Theory Center, and was named Board of Governors Professor (2005).[5]
In 2016, he became the inaugural holder of the C. N. Yang/Wei Deng Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.[6]
He is the twin brother of the late Alexei Zamolodchikov (1952–2007), also a noted physicist.[7]
Awards
- 1999: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."
- 2003/4: Humboldt Prize
- 2005: Blaise Pascal Chair at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
- 2011: Lars Onsager Prize, together with Alexander Belavin and Alexander Polyakov, "for the remarkable ideas that they introduced concerning conformal field theory and soluble models of statistical mechanics in two dimensions."
- 2011: Dirac Medal from the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.
- 2016: elected to the National Academy of Sciences[8]
- 2024: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics,[9] "for profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different branches of physics and mathematics."
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Zamolodchikov Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics" (in en-US). 2023-09-14. https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/zamolodchikov-shares-3m-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics/.
- ↑ "INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PHYSICIST APPOINTED AS CHEN NING YANG – WEI DENG ENDOWED CHAIR IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY". 23 January 2017. https://www.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/general/2017-01-21-endowed-chair-in-physics-stony-brook.php/amp/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Belavin AA; Polyakov AM; Zamolodchikov AB (1984). "Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory". Nucl. Phys. B 241 (2): 333–80. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90052-X. Bibcode: 1984NuPhB.241..333B. https://cds.cern.ch/record/152341.
- ↑ "Princeton celebrates Polyakov's 60th". CERN Courier (March 1): 2. 2006. http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/29554/2. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ↑ Alexander Zamolodchikov Named Board of Governors Professor of Physics
- ↑ "Stony Brook Physics & Astronomy: News". http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/news/whatsnew_single.php?date=latest/20160825.
- ↑ Alexei Zamolodchikov 1952–2007 from CERN (January 1, 2008)
- ↑ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html, retrieved 2016-05-14.
- ↑ "BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2024 LAUREATES IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS, AND MATHEMATICS". 14 September 2023. https://breakthroughprize.org/News/83.
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