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Alexei A. Abrikosov is Argonne Distinguished Scientist at the Condensed Matter Theory Group of the Materials Science Division. He received his Ph.D. in 1951 from the Institute for Physical Problems (Moscow, Russia) for the theory of thermal diffusion in plasmas and then the next degree, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, in 1955, from the same Institute for a thesis on quantum electrodynamics at high energies. In 1975 he was awarded the Honorable Doctorate from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He worked at several scientific institutions and universities in Russia. During his long scientific life he explored successfully many fields but
mainly the theory of solids: superconductors, metals, semimetals and and semiconductors. He is famous for the discovery of Type II superconductors and their magnetic properties (Abrikosov vortex lattice). In 1991 he joined the Materials Science Division. In Argonne he worked on the theory of high-Tc superconductors, properties of CMR manganates and, together with experimentalists of MSD, discovered the so called "quantum magnetoresistance" in silver chalcogenides. Dr. A. Abrikosov was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded numerous Russian and International Awards and the Honorable Citizenship of Saint Emilion (France).
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