Nobel Prize Laureates in Physics - 2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA,
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia, and
Anthony J. Leggett
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Editorial Remark:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 was awarded to three physicists for their outstanding achievements in the study of superconductivity and superfluidity phenomena, Prof. Alexei Abrikosov, Prof. Vitaly Ginzburg and Prof. Antony Leggett. We choose to bring in this issue of PhysicaPlus, thanks to the courtesy of the Nobel Committee, the full text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Prof. Vitaly Ginzburg (in PDF format, see the link to www.nobel.se). We are doing so not only by the scientific virtue of this lecture, but also because Prof. Ginzburg provides in his lecture an interesting overview of the development of physics in the former Soviet Union, in which physicists of Jewish origin played an important role. We are grateful for the Introduction to the Nobel Lecture of Prof. Vitaly Ginzburg, written by Prof. Ady stern of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Abstract
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 was awarded to Professors Vitaly
Ginzburg, Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony J. Leggett for their contribution
to the theoretical understanding of superconductivity and superfluidity.
Below we bring to you the lecture held by Prof. Ginzburg on the occasion
of receiving the prize. The lecture is preceded by a short (Hebrew)
introduction that briefly explain what are superconductivity and
superfluidity, and what was the main contribution of Prof. Ginzburg to
their understanding.
Click here for the full text of Prof. Ginzburg's Nobel Lecture. (PDF/English)
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