Alexander Patashinski

Alexander Sacharowitsch Pataschinski (Russian Александр Захарович Паташинский, English transcription Alexander Patashinski, Patashinskii or Patashinsky; * 1936 in Vitebsk ) is a Russian physicist.

Pataschinski studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow and at the Institute of Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ( Kapitsa Institute ), where he studied with Lev Landau, where he in 1963 with a thesis on singularities received his doctorate in Feynman diagrams, in which he graduated from the private tests for the theoretical minimum, and accepted him in 1959 as a PhD student. Previously, he was in the group of Isaak Markovich Chalatnikow. From 1961 he was at the Institute of Thermal Physics in Novosibirsk, but did not work at Landau in Moscow. In Novosibirsk his collaboration with Valery Pokrovsky, first of all Regge poles began in semiclassical scattering on potentials in quantum mechanics. He was habilitated (Russian PhD ) in 1968. 1968 to 1998 he was a senior scientist at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk and at the same time from 1974 to 1992 professor at the State University in Novosibirsk. Since 1992 he is a professor at Northwestern University.

In 1983 he was awarded with Valery Pokrovsky the Landau Award for her contributions to the theory of phase transitions in statistical physics (scaling of the correlation functions at the critical point ), which they developed together from 1963. He dealt ( which he conducted research supported by Dow Chemical in the U.S.) with other areas of theoretical physics such as gravitational collapse in general relativity theory and high-energy scattering of hadrons on nuclei, turbulence, nonequilibrium phenomena in statistical mechanics, physics of glasses and polymers.

Since 2003 he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Writings

• Patashinskii, Pokrovskii, " Fluctuation Theory of Phase Transitions, " Elsevier 1979