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Russian physicist scoops low temperature award 25 June 2004
Grigory Volovik from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in
Moscow and the Helsinki University of Technology has won the 2004
Simon Memorial Prize. The prize, which is awarded every three years
for distinguished work in experimental or theoretical
low-temperature physics, was announced by the Low Temperature Group
of the Institute of Physics this week.
Volovik was chosen for the award for his pioneering research on the
effects of symmetry in superfluids and superconductors and for
extending these concepts to quantum field theory, cosmology, quantum
gravity and particle physics.
"Grigory Volovik is an outstanding theorist who has shown how novel
ideas and experiments from low-temperature physics might lead to a
new understanding about the early universe and particle physics, in
a unique synthesis," said Mike Lea, Chair of the selection panel for
the prize. Volovik, who recently wrote a book on his work called The
Universe in a Helium Droplet, will receive the award at a Simon
Memorial Prize conference in London in September. At this
conference, he will also present a lecture called "Emergent physics:
a condensed matter primer".
See: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/16/1
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30 Jun 2004 01:46:20 AM |
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| Russian physicist scoops low temperature award 25 June 2004
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| Grigory Volovik from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in
| Moscow and the Helsinki University of Technology has won the 2004
| Simon Memorial Prize. The prize, which is awarded every three years
| for distinguished work in experimental or theoretical
| low-temperature physics, was announced by the Low Temperature Group
| of the Institute of Physics this week.
|
| Volovik was chosen for the award for his pioneering research on the
| effects of symmetry in superfluids and superconductors and for
| extending these concepts to quantum field theory, cosmology, quantum
| gravity and particle physics.
|
| "Grigory Volovik is an outstanding theorist who has shown how novel
| ideas and experiments from low-temperature physics might lead to a
| new understanding about the early universe and particle physics, in
| a unique synthesis," said Mike Lea, Chair of the selection panel for
| the prize. Volovik, who recently wrote a book on his work called The
| Universe in a Helium Droplet, will receive the award at a Simon
| Memorial Prize conference in London in September. At this
| conference, he will also present a lecture called "Emergent physics:
| a condensed matter primer".
Yeah, baby! Volovik is rapidly becoming my main man.
FrediFizzx
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