Alexei Abrikosov

✶June 25, 1928

†March 29, 2017

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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Russian-American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

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