Pomeranchuk Prize
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The Pomeranchuk Prize is an international award
for theoretical physics
, awarded annually since 1998 by the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(ITEP) from Moscow
. It is named after Russian physicist Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk
, who together with Landau
established the Theoretical Physics Department of the Institute.
The laureates are
Award
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for theoretical physics
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
, awarded annually since 1998 by the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
The Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics is located in Moscow, Russia as a MinAtom physical institute....
(ITEP) from Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. It is named after Russian physicist Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk
Isaak Pomeranchuk
Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was a Soviet physicist, who was the founder and first head of the theory division at ITEP. The particle pomeron is named in his honour. For his work, Pomeranchuk was twice awarded Stalin Prize .-External links:**...
, who together with Landau
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...
established the Theoretical Physics Department of the Institute.
The laureates are
- 2008 Leonard SusskindLeonard SusskindLeonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology...
- Lev OkunLev OkunLev Okun is a Russian theoretical physicist.He was born in 1929 in the Soviet Union, and graduated from Moscow Mechanical Institute in 1953 where he was a student of Arcady Migdal and later a graduate student of Isaak Pomeranchuk....
- Lev Okun
- 2007 Alexander BelavinAlexander BelavinAlexander "Sasha" Abramovich Belavin is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to string theory.He is a professor at the Independent University of Moscow and is researcher at the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics....
- Yoichiro NambuYoichiro Nambuis a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in...
- Yoichiro Nambu
- 2006 Vadim Kuzmin
- Howard GeorgiHoward GeorgiHoward Mason Georgi III, born January 6, 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University...
- Howard Georgi
- 2005 Iosif KhriplovichIosif KhriplovichIosif Benzionovich Khriplovich is a Russian theoretical physicist who has made deep contributions in quantum field theory, atomic physics, and general relativity....
- Arkady Vainshtein
- 2004 Alexander Andreyev
- Alexander Polyakov
- 2003 Valery Rubakov
- Freeman John Dyson
- 2002 Ludvig FaddeevLudvig Faddeev-References:...
- Bryce Seligman DeWitt
- 2001 Lev LipatovLev LipatovLev Nikolaevich Lipatov is a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to nuclear physics. He is the head of Theoretical Physics Division at St. Petersburg's Nuclear Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Gatchina...
- Tullio ReggeTullio ReggeTullio Regge is an Italian theoretical physicist. He obtained a degree in physics from the University of Turin in 1952, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under the direction of Robert Marshak. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a post at the Max Planck Institute for...
- Tullio Regge
- 2000 Evgenii FeinbergEvgenii FeinbergEvgenii L'vovich Feinbergwas a Soviet physicist, well known for his contributions totheoretical physics.He was a son to a physician, born in Baku, moving to Moscow in 1918 where he...
- James Daniel Bjorken
- 1999 Karen Ter-MartirosianKaren Ter-MartirosianKaren Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan was a Russian theoretical physics scientist of Armenian origin, known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and the author of several hundred articles in his area.He was born in Tbilisi and graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1943...
- Gabriele VenezianoGabriele VenezianoGabriele Veneziano, born in Florence, Italy), is an Italian theoretical physicist and the founder of string theory. . Has spent most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland...
- Gabriele Veneziano
- 1998 Aleksander Ilyich AkhiezerAleksander Ilyich AkhiezerAleksander Ilyich Akhiezer wasa Soviet nuclear physicist, known for his scientific contributions to quantum electrodynamics,three hundred articles and eleven scientific books in his area....
- Sidney DrellSidney DrellSidney David Drell is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell is a noted contributor in the field of quantum electrodynamics and particle...
- Sidney Drell