Vitaly Ginzburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vitaly Ginzburg

Russian Physicist

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1916

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 08-Nov-2009

Profession: scientist, physicist, inventor, astrophysicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (Russian: ????´??? ??´??????? ??´??????; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb.
He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist.