Re: Russian physicist scoops low temperature award 25 June 2004

From: FrediFizzx (fredifizzx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:46:20 -0700

"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:40E2197B.E53FD24@mchsi.com...
| Ref: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/16/1
|
| Russian physicist scoops low temperature award 25 June 2004
|
| Grigory Volovik from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in
| Moscow and the Helsinki University of Technology has won the 2004
| Simon Memorial Prize. The prize, which is awarded every three years
| for distinguished work in experimental or theoretical
| low-temperature physics, was announced by the Low Temperature Group
| of the Institute of Physics this week.
|
| Volovik was chosen for the award for his pioneering research on the
| effects of symmetry in superfluids and superconductors and for
| extending these concepts to quantum field theory, cosmology, quantum
| gravity and particle physics.
|
| "Grigory Volovik is an outstanding theorist who has shown how novel
| ideas and experiments from low-temperature physics might lead to a
| new understanding about the early universe and particle physics, in
| a unique synthesis," said Mike Lea, Chair of the selection panel for
| the prize. Volovik, who recently wrote a book on his work called The
| Universe in a Helium Droplet, will receive the award at a Simon
| Memorial Prize conference in London in September. At this
| conference, he will also present a lecture called "Emergent physics:
| a condensed matter primer".

Yeah, baby! Volovik is rapidly becoming my main man.

FrediFizzx

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