The Fizfak (Faculty of Physics) of Moscow State University is one of the most esteemed faculties of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, widely regarded by students as one of the toughest faculties in the university. It was established in 1933. The current dean of the faculty - Nikolay Sysoev.

Departments of the faculty

*Department of experimental and theoretical physics *Department of the physics of solid bodies *Department of radiophysics and electronics *Department of nuclear physics *Department of geophysics *Department of astronomy *Department of additional educating programs

Notable alumni

Nobel winners

Igor Tamm Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( rus, И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм , p=ˈiɡərʲ jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvitɕ ˈtam , a=Ru-Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm.ogg; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in ...

(Nobel Prize in Physics, 1958) * Ilya Frank (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1958) *

Lev Davidovich Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani physicist of Jewish descent who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. His ac ...

(Nobel Prize in Physics, 1962) *

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

(Nobel Peace Prize, 1975) *

Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together wit ...

(Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003) *

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and AmericanAlexei A. AbrikosovAutobiography Nobelprize.org, the official website of the ...

(Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003)

Physicists

* Sergei Kurdyumov * Stanislav Mikheyev *

Dmitry Shirkov Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov (russian: Дми́трий Васи́льевич Ширко́в; 3 March 1928 – 23 January 2016) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the re ...

* Alexei Smirnov * Igor Ternov *

Sergei Tyablikov Sergei Vladimirovich Tyablikov (russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Тя́бликов; September 7, 1921 – March 17, 1968) was a Soviet theoretical physicist known for his significant contributions to statistical mechanics, solid ...

* Sergey Vavilov *

Anatoly Vlasov Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vlasov (russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Вла́сов; – 22 December 1975) was a Russian, later Soviet, theoretical physicist prominent in the fields of statistical mechanics, kinetics, and esp ...

* Georgiy Zatsepin *

Dmitry Zubarev Dmitry Nikolayevich Zubarev (russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Зу́барев; November 27, 1917 – July 29, 1992) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, non-equilib ...

Roald Sagdeev Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (russian: Роальд Зиннурович Сагдеев, tt-Cyrl, Роальд Зиннур улы Сәгъдиев; born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Res ...

Andrei Linde Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Linde is one of the ...

* Alexei Starobinsky *

Rem Khokhlov Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (russian: link=no, Рем Викторович Хохлов; July 15, 1926, in Livny – August 8, 1977, in Moscow) was a Soviet physicist and university teacher, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the foun ...

Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov (born 29 August 1938) is a Russian geophysicist. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and has served as its president since 1993. Kuznetsov was born in Moscow, the son of Xenia Petrovna and ...

Educationists

Georgy Shchedrovitsky Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky (russian: Георгий Петрович Щедровицкий) (23 February 1929 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian philosopher and methodologist, public and cultural figure. The creator of the system-thinking me ...

Businessmen

* Oleg Deripaska *

Yuri Milner Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He is a cofounder and former c ...

Artists

Natalia Sokol Natalia Sokol, aka Koza, is the leader of the Russian highly political art-group Voina. Life and work Natalia Sokol, together with her husband Oleg Vorotnikov (Vor of Voina), is a founder of Voina, a political artist group in Russia, which fo ...

External links

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