Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (June 25, 1928 - March 29, 2017) was a Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions were in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.