Valerii Vinokur (also spelled as Vinokour, or Valery Vinokour, born 26 April 1949) is a condensed matter physicist who works on superconductivity, the physics of vortices, disordered media and glasses, nonequilibrium physics of dissipative systems, quantum phase transitions, quantum thermodynamics, and topological quantum matter. He is a senior scientist and Argonne Distinguished Fellow at

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and a senior scientist at the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, Office of Research and National Laboratories, The

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. He is a Foreign Member of the National

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and a Fellow of the

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Career

Vinokur earned his BSc in physics of metals at

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in 1972 and moved to the Institute of Solid State Physics,

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, Russia, where he received a Ph.D. in physics in 1979. He has held appointments as visiting scientist at

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, Grenoble (1987), visiting scientist at

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(1989), visiting scientist at

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(Zurich) (1990), and as visiting director of research at Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) (1996). Since 1990 Vinokur has worked at the

, having become Distinguished Argonne Fellow in 2009. Since 2018, he has been a senior scientist at the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, Office of Research and National Laboratories, The University of Chicago.

Honors, awards and fellowships

* Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1998 * University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award, 1998 * International John Bardeen Prize, 2003 * Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 2003 * Foreign Member of the Norwegian National Academy of Letters and Science, 2013 * Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 2013 * International Abrikosov Prize, 2017 * Fritz London Memorial Prize, 2020

References

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