Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov

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)[1] of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[2]

Graduation and awards

• 1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology[2]
• 1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science[2]
• 1981: USSR State Prize[2]
• 1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation[2]
• 2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award[2]
• 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".[3]

References

1. "Смирнов Валентин Пантелеймонович (Smirnov Valentin Panteleimonovich)" (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences. March 22, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
2. "Valentin SMIRNOV". Global Energy International Prize. Global Energy Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-11-23. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
3. Lister, Jo (2006). "Plasma Physics Division Conference and Hannes Alfvén Prize" (PDF). Europhysics News. European Physical Society. 37 (1): 9. Retrieved 2009-01-17.