Victor Veselago

Victor Veselago

Victor Georgievich Veselago (born 1929, in Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian physicist. In 1967, he was the first to publish a theoretical analysis of materials with negative permittivity, ε, and permeability μ.

He published his seminal work in a paper entitled "The Electrodynamics of Substances with Simultaneously Negative Values of ε and μ". It was first published in Russian (1967), and was later translated into English (1968). His published paper was key to the advancement of physics research in electrodynamics. It has been cited 1,646 times by other scientific works, according to Cross ref and 2,856 times according to Google Scholar as of Aug. 2012.

Throughout his career he has received awards and has continued contributing to electrodynamics.