"Every physicist (naturally, this equally applies to other specialities, but I restrict myself to physicists for definitiveness) should simultaneously know, apart from theoretical physics, a wealth of facts from different branches of physics and be familiar with the newest notable accomplishments."
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in his Nobel lecture, December 8, 2003, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
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Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (October 4, 1916 â November 8, 2009) was a Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 along with Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett.
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