Lev Gor'kov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lev Gor'kov

Russian-American physicist

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 28-Dec-2016

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lev Petrovich Gor'kov (??? ???????? ???????; 14 June 1929 – 28 December 2016) was a Russian-American research physicist internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity.
He was particularly famous for developing microscopic foundations of the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity (Vitaly Ginzburg was awarded the 2003 Nobel prize in physics for developing, together with Lev Landau, the phenomenology theory).
Gor'kov was a professor of physics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and a program director in Condensed Matter at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
He was one of the Magnet Lab's founding scientists.