Andrey A. Varlamov (born 25 April 1954) is an Italian physicist of Ukrainian origin. He is a

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at the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices ( SPIN-CNR) in

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, Italy.

Early life and education

Andrey Varlamov was born on 25 April 1954 in

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. In 1971 he graduated from Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum No. 145. The same year, he was admitted to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and got his master's degree

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from the Landau Institute six years later. Immediately after, he started the Ph.D. program under the supervision of A.A. Abrikosov at the

Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys The National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) (russian: Национальный исследовательский технологический университет МИСиС) is a public technological university in the field ...

and received his Ph.D. in condensed matter

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in 1980. At the same university he was awarded his Habilitatus (Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences) in 1988.

Professional career

From 1981 to 1999 he worked as a researcher, senior researcher (1985), associated (1987) and full professor (1990) at the Department of Theoretical Physics in

. In 1993 he became an invited fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Group of

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in United States and then starting from 1996 worked as an invited professor at first at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and then from 1997 to 2000 held the same position at both University of Bordeaux and the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2005 he was a visiting professor at the

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and the

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. At the

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he is an adjunct professor to this day. Since 1999 he works as a research director at the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and other Innovative Materials and Devices of the Italian National Research Council ( SPIN-CNR). In 2018 Andrey Varlamov and

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had written a what became known as the ''Perfect Pizza'' equation.

Honorable titles

In 2009 he was elected as correspondent member of the

Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797. At the time of the foundation the Istituto was an institution of the Cisalpine Republic and its name was Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cis ...

Brera. In 2011 he was awarded the degree of ''Doctor of Honoris Causa'' at the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2014 he was honored with the degree of ''Doctor of Honoris Causa'' at the

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. Since 1985 he is a member of the Editorial Board (1986-1992 vice-editor-in-chief) of the popular scientific journal for students '' Kvant'' of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

Awards

*1971 – First Prize in the Vth

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(IPhO) *1986 –

Lenin Komsomol Prize Lenin Komsomol Prize () was a Soviet annual award for the best works in science, engineering, literature or art carried out by young authors of age not exceeding 33 years. Komsomol was the abbreviated name of The Communist Union of Youth (Russia ...

in Physics (USSR State Prize for young scientists) *2015 – Le Prix Roberval Grand Public for the book ''Le kaleidoscope de la Physique'' (in co-authorship with Attilio Rigamonti and Jacques Villain) *2016 – Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation

Books

*1984 – ''Энциклопедический словарь юного физика'' *1987/2002/2005/2014/2017 - ''Удивительная физика'' *1997 – ''Fisica, che meraviglia!'' *1997 – ''Fluctuation Phenomena in High Temperature Superconductors'' *2001/2004/2012 ''Wonders of Physics'' *2002/2009 – ''The Physics of Superconductors'' *2005/2009 – ''Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors'' *2007 – ''Теория флуктуаций в сверхпроводниках'' *2007 – ''Magico Caleidiscopio della Fisica'' *2011 – ''Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics'' *2011 – ''Maravillas De La Fisica'' *2014 – ''Wonders of Physics'' (Chinese) *2014 – ''Le kaleidoscope de la Physique'' *2016 – ''Wonders of Physics I'' (Japanese) *2017 – ''Wonders of Physics II'' (Japanese) *2020 – ''Несамовита фізика. Скрипка, піца, вино і надпровідність''

References

Publications

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Varlamov, Andrey 1954 births Living people Scientists from Kyiv 20th-century Italian physicists Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics alumni Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux Academic staff of the University of Florence University of Minnesota faculty Academic staff of the University of Pavia Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata 21st-century Italian physicists Soviet physicists