List of Russian physicists

This list of Russian physicists includes the famous physicists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. == Alphabetical list == === A === Alexei Abrikosov, discovered how magnetic flux can penetrate a superconductor (the Abrikosov vortex), Nobel Prize winner Franz Aepinus, related electricity and magnetism, proved the electric nature of pyroelectricity, explained electric polarization and electrostatic induction, invented achromatic microscope Zhores Alferov, inventor of modern heterotransistor, Nobel Prize winner Sergey Alekseenko, director of the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Global Energy Prize recipient Artem Alikhanian, a prominent researcher of cosmic rays, inventor of wide-gap track spark chamber Abram Alikhanov, nuclear physicist, a prominent researcher of cosmic rays, built the first nuclear reactors in the USSR, founder of Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) Semen Altshuler, researched EPR and NMR, predicted acoustic paramagnetic resonance Lev Artsimovich, builder of the first tokamak, researcher of high temperature plasma Gurgen Askaryan, predicted self focusing of light, discovered Askaryan effect in the particle physics === B === Nikolay Basov, physicist, co-inventor of laser and maser, Nobel Prize winner Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist, co-developed the BBGKY hierarchy, formulated a microscopic theory of superconductivity, suggested a triplet quark model, introduced a new quantum degree of freedom (color charge) Dmitry Blokhintsev, theoretical physicist who served as the first director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology.

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