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Grigory Volovik

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Grigory Volovik · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; topological aspects of superfluids and condensed matter

When

1946, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Russia · Finland

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Biography

Grigory Volovik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; topological aspects of superfluids and condensed matter

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Grigory Volovik is a Russian-Finnish theoretical physicist at the Landau Institute and Aalto University known for the topological classification of superfluids and condensed matter, especially superfluid helium-3 as a laboratory for quantum field theory and cosmology (The Universe in a Helium Droplet). His work links condensed-matter physics to fundamental particle physics. He is listed among Jewish physicists.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; topological aspects of superfluids and condensed matter

1946

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics