Nobel prize winners and Novosibirsk state university

Leonid Kantorovich

was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.

In 1948 Kantorovich was assigned to the atomic project of the USSR.

From 1960 to 1971, Kantorovich lived and worked in Novosibirsk, where he created and took charge of the Department of Computational Mathematics in Novosibirsk State University.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich

Iosif Khriplovich

Was a Russian theoretical physicist who made profound contributions to quantum field theory, atomic physics, and general relativity.

From 1959 to 2014, he worked at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: postgraduate student, junior research fellow, senior research fellow, leading research fellow, chief research fellow. At the same time, from 1998 to 2009, he headed the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Physics Faculty of NSU, where he taught courses in quantum mechanics, the theory of weak interactions, and the general theory of relativity.

The asymptotic freedom of QCD was discovered in 1973 by David Gross and Frank Wilczek,and independently by David Politzer in the same year. For this work all three shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics… but the same phenomenon had previously been observed (in quantum electrodynamics with a charged vector field, by V.S. Vanyashin and M.V. Terent’ev in 1965; and Yang–Mills theory by Iosif Khriplovich in 1969 and Gerard ‘t Hooft in 1972), but its physical significance was NOT REALIZED until the work of Gross, Wilczek and Politzer, which was recognized by the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Khriplovich

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_freedom

Hiroshi Amano

is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. For his work he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

In 2019, Japanese physicist Hiroshi Amano, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue LEDs, came to Akademgorodok to get a job at Novosibirsk State University. Previously, his wife, Kasumi Amano, taught Japanese at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, and this was not the scientist’s first visit to Novosibirsk.

NSU Rector Mikhail Fedoruk dedicated Amano Hiroshi to the honorary doctorate of the university and presented him with a mantle. According to Hiroshi, this was an honor for him, since the Novosibirsk university is at a high world level, especially in the fields of physics and mathematics. It was assumed that the researcher from Japan would teach a course on materials science. But long-term cooperation did not work out in the end.

https://tass.com/non-political/753814

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Amano

https://www.atas.info/news/2023-12-10/nobelevskaya-premiya-2023-byli-li-v-istorii-nagrady-laureaty-iz-novosibirska

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