Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov

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Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov

Valery Anatoljewitsch Rubakow ( Russian Валерий Анатольевич Рубаков ; English transliteration Valery Rubakov ; born February 16, 1955 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian theoretical physicist.

Rubakov is a scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow . Since 1997 he has also been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2015 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Rubakov was best known in 1981 for his theory of catalysis of proton decay by magnetic monopoles in Yang-Mills 'theories used in Great Unified Theories of Elementary Particles, in which the existence of massive monopoles was discovered in 1974 by Gerardus' t Hooft and Alexander Polyakov . Rubakov's discovery that these monopoles can contribute significantly to proton decay - which is also predicted by a different mechanism in many GUTs - was completely surprising at the time. Later he was particularly concerned with cosmological questions.

In 1985, in an influential work with Wadim Kusmin and Michail Schaposchnikow (Shaposhnikov), he clarified the conditions under which an explanation of the baryon number violation in the Standard Model is possible.

In 2003 he received the Pomeranschuk Prize and in 2008 the J. Hans D. Jensen Prize . In 2010 he received the Julius Wess Prize and in 2008 the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize . With Shaposhnikov he received the Markov Prize in 2005 . Rubakow was awarded the Demidow Prize for 2016 and the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics in 2020 .

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  1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Newly elected members, April 2015 (by Class and Section)
  2. Kuzmin, Shaposhnikov, Rubakov On the Anomalous Electroweak Baryon Number Nonconservation in the Early Universe , Physics Letters B, Volume 155, 1985, p. 35, abstract