Valentin Smirnov (physicist)
Soviet nuclear physicist
Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (Russian: Валенти́н Пантелеи́монович Cмирно́в, b. 2 October 1937), is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician (since 2003) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Graduation and awards
1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science
1981: USSR State Prize
1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation
2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award
2005: Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society, together with Malcolm Golby Haines and Thomas Sanford, "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics".
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