Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)

Vadim Alekseevich Kuzmin (Russian Вадим Алексеевич Кузьмин, English transcription Vadim Alexeevich Kuzmin, born April 16, 1937 in Moscow ) is a Russian, a theoretical physicist.

He after completing his studies in 1961 at the Moscow State University until the doctorate in 1971 at the Lebedev Institute and then at the Institute of Nuclear Physics ( INR) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow since its founding in 1970. He became a professor and head of the Department particles astrophysics and cosmology. In 1987 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate ).

He was in the 1980s, a pioneer of the electroweak baryogenesis. In 1985, he was in an influential work with Valeri Anatoljevich Rubakow and Mikhail Shaposhnikov ( Mikhail E. Shaposhnikov ), that the violation of baryon number can be explained in the Universe within the standard model at energies in the range of the electroweak phase transition, if the phase transition is first order ( must be provided to continue a period of strong thermal non-equilibrium in the early universe ).

He dealt with neutrino physics ( Proposal for gallium / germanium detectors for solar neutrino experiment ) and neutron - Antineutron oscillations, which he proposed in 1970 as a possibility of observing baryon number violation.

In 1970 he was the independent Sacharowkriterien.

According to him, Kenneth Greisen and Zatsepin Georgiy the GZK cutoff for the upper limit of the energy of cosmic rays from the interaction with the cosmic background radiation is named ( 1966).

In 2000 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he received the Pomeranchuk Prize with Howard Georgi. In 2003 he received the Markov price.