Lev Gor'kov
Lev Petrovich Gorkov (Russian Лев Петрович Горьков, English transliteration Lev Petrovich Gor'kov, born June 14, 1928 in Moscow ) is a Russian- American theoretical physicist who deals with many-body theory and in particular the theory of superconductivity.
Life
Gorkow studied at the Moscow State University and then joined the theory group of Lev Landau, where he worked on problems in theoretical solid state physics with Abrikossow, Igor Dsjaloschinski ( born 1931 ) and Isaac Chalatnikow. In 1960 he was awarded the Russian doctorate ( Habilitation ) in Saint Petersburg. After that he was in Chernogolovka, near Moscow, where he became deputy director at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 1991 and 1992 he was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign, and was then a professor at Florida State University and a member of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee.
Gorkow was one of the pioneers of the application of quantum field theoretical methods in solid state physics, which he applied in the theory of superconductivity in particular ( while Spartak Belyaev methods applied them to superfluids ) and there brought the BCS theory in an elegant and workable form. He examined thus spatially inhomogeneous superconductors, developed a microscopic justification of the Ginzburg - Landau theory, examined the influence of defects and non-equilibrium phenomena in superconductivity. With his colleagues at the Landau Institute Abrikossow and Dzyaloshinsky he wrote a standard textbook on quantum field theoretical methods in the theory of condensed matter.
Gorkov 's correspondent since 1966 and since 1987 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1966 he was awarded the Lenin Prize and the 1988 Landau Prize. In 2004 he was awarded with Spartak Belyayev the Feenberg Medal and 1991 the Bardeen Award. Since 2005 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1991 and nonresident member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is since 1992 an honorary doctorate from the University of Illinois, since 1989, the City University of New York and received the 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for " Senior U.S. Scientists".