Semyon Gershtein

Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein
Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein
	Russian: Семён Соломонович Герштейн
	Semyon Gerstein in a lecture at MIPT
Born	July 13, 1929; Harbin, China
Alma mater	MSU Faculty of Physics
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"; Order of Honour (Russia); USSR State Prize
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Institute for High Energy Physics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Academic advisors	Anatoly Vlasov, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein (born July 13, 1929 in Harbin) is a Soviet and Russian physicist. He is an academician of Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003. He is a USSR State Prize laureate.

Biography

After graduating from the Department of Nuclear Physics (Faculty of Physics) in Moscow State University, he worked at a school in Kaluga Oblast until 1954. In 1955, he entered the graduate school of the Institute for Physical Problems.

He was a senior researcher in the Institute for High Energy Physics. He went on to become a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1963).

He has authored more than two hundred publications and several scientific discoveries.

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class (2005) — for his great contribution to the development of nuclear energy, a productive scientific activities and many years of conscientious work
Order of Honour (Russia) (September 25, 1999) — for services to the state, many years of hard work and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation among peoples
USSR State Prize[1]
Pomeranchuk Prize from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (2011)[2]
Landau Gold Medal (2013)[3]

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