Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky (Скринский, Александр Николаевич) (born 15 January 1936) is a Russian nuclear physicist. He was born in

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and was educated at the high school in the city of Gorky and then at the Lomonosov

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. In 1957 he joined the laboratory of Gersh Budker, which was a part of the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (now the Kurchatov Institute). Since 1962, Skrinsky has been connected with the

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, where he was director from 1977 to 2015. Skrinsky made a significant contribution to the development of the physics of accelerators and high-energy physics (in particular, he developed a method of colliding beams, he participated in the creation of new types of colliders in electron-electron, electron-positron and proton-antiproton beams). In 1964, together with Budker, he developed the foundations of the method of colliding beams, on the basis of which the world's first VEP-1 collider was created at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for experiments in the physics of elementary particles and a series of studies on quantum electrodynamics was carried out. In 1966 an electron-positron collider VEPP-2 was constructed, experiments on which yielded valuable results on the physics of vector mesons and other hadrons. Later, the method of colliding beams became the basis of modern high-energy experimental physics; In particular, based on the technology of the colliding beams method, the

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was built. On November 26, 1968 he was elected a corresponding member, and on December 24, 1970 a full member, of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1991 the

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) in the Division of Nuclear Physics (High Energy Physics). He is also a full member of the

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(1999) and a foreign member of the

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(2000). Skrinsky was a member of

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's (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Scientific Policy Council between 1986 and 1992.

Honours and awards

*1967: Lenin Prize - for participation in the development of the method of colliding beams *1989: State Prize of the USSR *2001,2005: State Prizes of the Russian Federation *1991 The V.I. Veksler Prize of the

*1997 The

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*2001 The

Robert R. Wilson Prize The Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators is an annual prize established in 1987 by the American Physical Society (APS) to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement, ordinarily by one person but sometim ...

of the

*2002 The Karpinsky Prize of the Alfred Töpfer Foundation, Germany

References

* Article based on the equivalent article on Russian Wikipedia. {{DEFAULTSORT:Skrinsky, Alexander Nikolayevich 1936 births Living people Moscow State University alumni Russian physicists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lenin Prize winners People associated with CERN Scientists from Moscow Scientists from Novosibirsk