Valentin Smirnov (physicist)

Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (Валенти́н Пантелеи́монович Cмирно́в, b. 2 October 1937), is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician (since 2003) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Graduation and awards

 * 1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
 * 1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science
 * 1981: USSR State Prize
 * 1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation
 * 2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award
 * 2005: Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society, together with Malcolm Golby Haines and Thomas Sanford, "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics".