Alexander F. Andreev

Alexander Fedorovich Andreev (Russian Александр Фёдорович Андреев; born December 10, 1939 in Leningrad, Soviet Union ) is a Russian physicist. Among his greatest scientific achievements is the prediction of known as Andreev reflection scattering of quasiparticles at the interface of superconductors.

Life

Andreyev studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a diploma degree in 1961 ( sound absorption in weak He3 He2 solutions). In 1964 he was at the Kapitsa Institute PhD ( low temperature properties of thermal transport) and his habilitation in 1968 (Russian PhD ) with the work Theoretical investigation of the transition state of superconductors. From 1979 he was a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and from 1990 director of the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems.

Honors, Memberships, publishing activities

In 1986 he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1984 and the Lomonosov Prize. In 1987 he received the Carus Medal of the Leopoldina. In 2004 he received the Pomeranchuk Prize, 1999, the Kapitza Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995 the British Simon Memorial Prize and the 2006 John Bardeen International Prize. He is a multiple honorary doctorates (Leiden, University of Kazan ). He is an honorary member of the Joffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he was Lorentz Professor at Leiden University.

Alexander Andreev since 1991 Vice- President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose corresponding member he whose full member he has been since 1981 and since 1987. He is also a foreign member of the Polish, Finnish, Ukrainian and Georgian Akademied of Sciences.

He is Chairman of the Scientific Council for Low Temperature Physics.

Alexander Andreev is editor of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics ( JETP ) and the popular scientific journal Priroda ( Nature) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Demidov Prize he received in 2011.