Arkady Vainshtein

Arkady Vainshtein ( Russian Аркадий Иосифович Вайнштейн , transliteration Arkádij Ióssifowič Wajnštéjn ; born February 24, 1942 in Stalinsk ) is a Russian -born American theoretical physicist.

Vainshtein attended the Novosibirsk University and the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, where he graduated in 1964 and received his Russian doctorate in 1968 (equivalent to a habilitation in the West). He stayed as a scientist at the Budker Institute, where he worked with Valentin Ivanovich Sakharov and Michail Schifman from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s . From 1990 he was like Schifman Professor at the University of Minnesota , where he is now Gloria Lubkin Professor. In 1998 he became a US citizen. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1997 .

Vainshtein is best known for his work with Sakharov and Schifman on non-perturbation-theoretical aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), for example the QCD sum rule named after them. He later also worked on the supersymmetric versions of nonabelian gauge theories . He also examined QCD contributions to the computation of precision measurements in quantum electrodynamics such as the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon .

In 1999 he received the Sakurai Prize with Sakharov and Schifman . In 2005 he received the ITEP Pomeranschuk Prize and in 2014 the Julius Wess Prize . In 2016 he received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) .

Fonts

• with K. Melnikov: Theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment . Springer Verlag, Berlin 2006

Web links

• Appreciation and biography on the occasion of the awarding of the Sakurai Prize
• Homepage at the University of Minnesota

Remarks

1. ↑ Described as a master's degree in the acknowledgment on the occasion of the Sakurai Prize