Vladimir N. Kopylov was a Russian physicist

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

. Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1970, with specialization of Radiophysics and Electronics. Most of his career he worked in the Institute of Solid-State Physics in Chernogolovka

Chernogolovka

Chernogolovka is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located northeast from Moscow border. Population: Chernogolovka does not have a rail link but long distance buses link the town to Moscow, Noginsk and Fryanovo.-Research facilities:...

, near Moscow. He received the highest honor for young scientists in the USSR, the Komsomol

Komsomol

The Communist Union of Youth , usually known as Komsomol , was the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Communist Union of...

 prize, for his discovery of thermomagnetic and galvanomagnetic waves, which can propagate in metals His work in collaboration with I.F. Scgegolev and others, led to understanding of the Meissner effect

Meissner effect

The Meissner effect is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The German physicists Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld discovered the phenomenon in 1933 by measuring the magnetic field distribution outside superconducting tin...

 in high-T_c superconductors through the surface barrier effect, also known as Bean-Livingston barrier.