Honours and Awards
Abrikosov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1966, the Fritz London Memorial Prize in 1972, and the USSR State Prize in 1982. In 1989 he received the Landau Prize from the Academy of Sciences, Russia. Two years later, in 1991, Abrikosov was awarded the Sony Corporation’s John Bardeen Award. The same year he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of London, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2000 was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.
Other awards include:
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences), 1964
- Lenin Prize, 1966
- Honorary Doctor of the University of Lausanne, 1975
- Order of the Badge of Honour, 1975
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1988
- USSR State Prize, 1982
- Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) 1987
- Landau Prize, 1989
- John Bardeen Award, 1991
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2000
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, 2001
- Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003
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