Valentin Smirnov (physicist)

Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (, b. 2 October 1937), is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician (since 2003) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Graduation and awards

1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science

1981: USSR State Prize

1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation

2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award

2005: Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society, together with Malcolm Golby Haines and Thomas Sanford, "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics".

References

1937 births

Soviet physicists

20th-century Russian physicists

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni

Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Recipients of the USSR State Prize

State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates

Soviet nuclear physicists

Russian nuclear physicists

Living people