• Center for Nano-Heterostructure Physics
• Solid State Electronics
• Solid State Physics
• Plasma Physics, Atomic Physics and Astrophysics
  Astrophysics
  Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
  
  
• Physics of Dielectrics and Semiconductor
  Semiconductor
  A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
  
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Academics associated with the Institute

• Anatoly Alexandrov
  Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
  Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov was a Russian physicist, director of the Kurchatov Institute, academician and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Zhores Alferov
• Abraham Alikhanov
  Abraham Alikhanov
  Abraham Isahakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet Armenia physicist, academic, and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Artem Alikhanian
  Artem Alikhanian
  Artem Isahaki Alikhanian was a Soviet Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , academic of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. USSR State Prizes , Lenin Prize...
  
  
• Lev Artsimovich
  Lev Artsimovich
  Lev Andreevich Artsimovich was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and Hero of Socialist Labor .- Academic research :Artsimovich worked on the...
  
  
• Matvei Bronstein
  Matvei Petrovich Bronstein
  Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was a Soviet theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology, as well as of a number of books in popular science for children....
  
  
• Edward Drobyshevski
• George Gamow
  George Gamow
  George Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave...
  
  
• Vladimir Gribov
  Vladimir Gribov
  Vladimir Naumovich Gribov was a prominent Russian theoretical physicist, who worked on high-energy physics, quantum field theory and the Regge theory of the strong interactions.His best known contributions are the pomeron, the DGLAP equations, and the Gribov copies.-Life:Gribov completed his...
  
  
• Evgeni Gross
  Evgeni Gross
  Evgenii Fedorovich Gross was a Soviet physicist working in optics and spectroscopy of condensed matter.He graduated from Leningrad University in 1924...
  
  
• Yuri Denisyuk
  Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
  Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk was a Soviet physicist known for his contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram".-External links:...
  
  
• Igor Kurchatov
  Igor Kurchatov
  Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov , was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb" for his directorial role in the...
  
  
• Dmitri Skobeltsyn
  Dmitri Skobeltsyn
  Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn was a Soviet physisist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labor ....
  
  
• Oleg Firsov
  Oleg Firsov
  Oleg Borisovich Firsov – was a Russian Soviet physicist-theorist known for his work on atomic interaction. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1972 for a series of work titled "Elementary processes and non-elastic scattering at nuclear collisions"....
  
  
• Georgy Flyorov
  Georgy Flyorov
  Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.-Biography:Flyorov was born in Rostov-on-Don and attended the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (March 2, 1913 – November 19, 1990) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.-Biography:Flyorov was born...
  
  
• Yakov Frenkel
  Yakov Frenkel
  Yakov Il'ich Frenkel, was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of solid-state physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel....
  
  
• Andrei Fursenko
  Andrei Fursenko
  Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko is a Russian politician, scientist and businessman. Currently he is the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.-Family and education:...
  
  
• Abram Ioffe
  Abram Ioffe
  Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize , the Lenin Prize , and the Hero of Socialist Labor . Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity...
  
  
• Pyotr Kapitsa
  Pyotr Kapitsa
  Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Kapitsa was born in the city of Kronstadt and graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1918. He worked for over ten years with Ernest Rutherford in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge...
  
  
• Yulii Khariton
  Yulii Borisovich Khariton
  Yulii Borisovich Khariton was a Soviet physicist working in the field of nuclear power...
  
  
• Yury Kovalchuk
• Lev Landau
  Lev Landau
  Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...
  
  
• Lev Shubnikov
  Lev Shubnikov
  Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR....
  
  
• Nikolay Semyonov
  Nikolay Semyonov
  Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.-Life:...