Valentin Smirnov (physicist)

Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (Russian: Валенти́н Пантелеи́монович Cмирно́в, b. 2 October 1937), is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician (since 2003)^[1] of the Russian Academy of Sciences.^[2]

Graduation and awards

• 1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology^[2]
• 1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science^[2]
• 1981: USSR State Prize^[2]
• 1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation^[2]
• 2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award^[2]
• 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".^[3]