Alexander Zamolodchikov
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| Born | 18 September 1952 Integrable Systems |
| Doctoral advisor | Karen Ter-Martirosian |
Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Замоло́дчиков; born September 18, 1952) is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to conformal field theory, statistical mechanics, string theory and condensed matter physics.
He is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished theoretical physicistsC.N. Yang – Wei Deng Endowed Chair of Physics at Stony Brook University.[2]
Biography
Born in
Ph.D. in physics from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1978). He joined the research staff of Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (1978) where he got a Doctor of Sciences
degree (1983).
He co-authored the famous
BPZ paper "Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory",[3] with Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Belavin.[3][4]
He joined Rutgers University (1990) where he co-founded Rutgers New High Energy Theory Center, and was named Board of Governors Professor (2005).[5]
In 2016, he became the inaugural holder of the
C. N. Yang/Wei Deng Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.[6]
He is the twin brother of the late Alexei Zamolodchikov (1952–2007), also a noted physicist.[7]
Awards
- 1999: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."
- 2003/4: Humboldt Prize
- 2005: École Normale Supérieurein Paris
- 2011: Lars Onsager Prize, together with Alexander Belavin and Alexander Polyakov, "for the remarkable ideas that they introduced concerning conformal field theory and soluble models of statistical mechanics in two dimensions."
- 2011: International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.
- 2016: elected to the National Academy of Sciences[8]
- 2024: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics,[9] "for profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different branches of physics and mathematics."
See also
References
- ^ a b "Zamolodchikov Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". 2023-09-14. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ "INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PHYSICIST APPOINTED AS CHEN NING YANG – WEI DENG ENDOWED CHAIR IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY". Stony Brook University. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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- ^ "Princeton celebrates Polyakov's 60th". CERN Courier (March 1): 2. 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ Alexander Zamolodchikov Named Board of Governors Professor of Physics Archived 2016-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Stony Brook Physics & Astronomy: News". www.physics.sunysb.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ Alexei Zamolodchikov 1952–2007 Archived 2018-01-14 at the Wayback Machine from CERN (January 1, 2008)
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
- ^ "BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2024 LAUREATES IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS, AND MATHEMATICS". Breakthrough Prize. 14 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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