Biography:Leonid Keldysh
Leonid Keldysh | |
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Леонид Вениаминович Келдыш | |
| Born | Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh April 7, 1931 |
| Died | November 11, 2016 (aged 85) Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Known for | Keldysh formalism Franz–Keldysh effect |
| Awards | EPS Europhysics Prize (1975)[1] Rusnanoprize (2009) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Lebedev Physical Institute |
| Academic advisors | Vitaly Ginzburg |
| Doctoral students | Yuri Kopaev |
Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh (Russian: Леонид Вениаминович Келдыш; 7 April 1931 – 11 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a faculty member at Texas A&M University. He is known for developing the Keldysh formalism,[2] a powerful quantum field theory framework designed to describe a system in a non-equilibrium state, as well as for the theory of excitonic insulators (Keldysh-Kopaev model, with Yuri Kopaev).[3] Keldysh's awards include the 2009 Rusnanoprize, an international nanotechnology award, for his work related to molecular-beam epitaxy,[4] the 2011 Evgenii Feinberg Memorial Medal, and the 2015 Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[5]
Keldysh was a son of mathematician Lyudmila Keldysh. His uncle, Mstislav Keldysh, was a mathematician and the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Sergei Novikov, a mathematician and a Fields medalist, is his step-brother.[6]
References
- ↑ "EPS Europhysics Prize". European Physical Society. https://www.eps.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=85187&id=554142.
- ↑ L. V. Keldysh (1965). "Diagram technique for nonequilibrium processes". Soviet Physics JETP 20: 1018–1026.
- ↑ L. V. Keldysh and Yu. V. Kopaev (1965). "Possible instability of the semimetallic state toward Coulomb interaction". Soviet Physics - Solid State 6: 2219–2224.
- ↑ "Rusnanoprize Laureates". http://forinnovations.org/en/laureates/. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ↑ Federico Capasso, Paul Corkum, Olga Kocharovskaya, Lev Pitaevskii, Michael V. Sadovskii (2017). "Leonid Keldysh". Physics Today 70 (6): 75–76. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3605. Bibcode: 2017PhT....70f..75C.
- ↑ Sossinsky, A. B.. "In the Other Direction". mccme.ru. https://www.mccme.ru/~merzon/mirror/abs-otherdir.html. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
External links
- Russian Academy of Sciences staff directory
- Keldysh's published papers in the scientific journal Physics-Uspekhi
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